The economic changes during transition involved a shift away from the planned foreign trade organization within the council for mutual economic assistance. Following a phase of farreaching trade policy liberalization, the agricultural sector in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC)...

Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific takes a ’big-picture‘ approach to Japan’s economic place in East Asia alongside that of China. It analyses Japan’s successes and experiments in trade policy as well as its failures in macro-economic policy. Japan’s diplomatic and economic...

The goal of Russia's economic modernization policy is to transform the economy, heavily dependent on energy exports, into an innovation-based economy. There are diverse views as to the achievements and limits of Russia's economic modernization policy. The Russian leadership considers the...

Der Bericht befasst sich mit der Wirtschaftslage und den Reformprozessen nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September in den Ländern Zentralasiens. Es wird dargestellt, welchen Stand die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung erreicht hat und welche Probleme in der zentralasiatischen Region bislang ungelöst...