One of the results of the transformation of the former socialist economies is high levels of unemployment. This paper attempts to describe this phenomenon in some countries and show which steps have been undertaken by the governments in order to make it easier. Its worth adding that there was no...

Cross border intellectual property and theoretical models / Ruth Taplin -- Innovation and intellectual property rights in China and India : prospects and strategies / Bernard Arogyaswamy, Lisa Dolak -- African intellectual property law and the newly emerging African economies with an emphasis on...

The last three years have seen the dramatic transformation of the Polish banking system from a monobank that served primarily as an accounting system for the central plan to an increasingly dynamic system of independent commercial banks. Financing for productive enterprise, mortgages and...

Poland is one of the countries aspiring to the European Union. In order to join with EU it is required to meet the “convergence criteria†in accordance with the Maastricht treaty. Additionally the European Union is changing, too. It introduced new monetary policy, new...

The end of the nineties has brought many substantial changes on the world economic map. On the one hand, a considerable acceleration of globalization and integration process has taken place and the volume of transactions in financial markets increased enormously, whereas on the other hand,...