Having reached a peak in 2002, Croatia's GDP growth lost momentum thereafter due to restrictive economic policy … has been identified as the main threat to macroeconomic stability. In 2004 Croatia, together with Latvia and Estonia, was … beginning of 2005 the World Bank downgraded Croatia to a ¿severely indebted middle-income country'. In addition, Croatia has one …

membership are heterogeneous. Three of them, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania, have acquired candidate status; their economies are …

some moderate slowdown in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. A definite growth slowdown was only …

Croatia's external debt has been growing steadily since the exchange rate stabilization in 1994. It reached almost 85 … debt problem that Croatia faces. It is more supply- than demand-driven low exports and high imports point to an exchange …

The report gives an overview of the overall trends in output and employment in Croatia, and of the country's fiscal and … developments in other Central, East and Southeast European economies. Finally some economic policy issues specific to Croatia are …. In contrast to the largely successful stabilization of prices and the exchange rate, Croatia's external position has …

employment, adding to unemployment which is generally high, or very high, and unlikely to go down significantly even in the …

The paper analyses economic inequality in Croatia in comparison with other transition economies of Central, East and … main findings are the following Over the entire transition period, Croatia has had a rather low and remarkably stable level … from paid employment was rising, overall stability of income inequality was due to a reduction of the more unequally …

resulted from restructuring of privatized state-owned companies. A reduction of employment has also resulted from foreign … affiliates allows to identify countries and industries with various levels of foreign penetration and employment development … members and is biased against skilled manual workers (i.e. FDI results in more employment of high-skill non-manual workers and …

growth of labour productivity went hand in hand with declining employment, and even with considerable job losses in the … resulted overwhelmingly from across-the-board productivity improvements in individual sectors of the economy while employment … 15 economies, implying a huge catching-up potential. The estimated elasticity of employment to production growth is low …

without a fixed contract which makes their employment position more vulnerable and open to exploitation. In addition, the …