This book contains a unique collection of studies on key economic and social policy challenges faced by countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region in a short- and long-term perspective. Prepared within the EU funded FP7 project on „Prospective Analysis for the Mediterranean...

Part I: Natural and Human Resources -- Chapter 1: Natural resources, geography, and climate (by Leonid Limonov) -- Chapter 2: Human resources (by Irina Denisova and Marina Kartseva) -- Part II: Historical Roots -- Chapter 3: Capitalist industrialization and modernization: since Alexander's...

Currency Crises in Emerging Markets, prepared by Warsaw-based Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), discusses various aspects of currency crises in emerging-market economies: The definitions and theoretical models of currency crises, the causes, management and propagation (contagion...