membership are heterogeneous. Three of them, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania, have acquired candidate status; their economies are … structural problems. High growth in many of the low-income transition countries should not divert attention away from the …

, productivity growth and exports. This and the next section represent new research effort in that a disaggregated database (by NACE …

, we analyse the productivity performance in the period after 1995 for five transition economies, i.e. the Czech Republic … European economies in terms of productivity and sectoral structures. The factors driving this convergence process, however … driver in growth and productivity. We demonstrate that the Central and Eastern European countries have successfully …

covered CEE, CIS Topics Industry Transition unanswered questions (by A. K. Kozminski; pp. 9-14) Keywords transition, post …

the rising relative wage of skilled workers in the manufacturing sector in three Central and Eastern European transition …

Yurchyshyn and Kateryna Markevych; pp. 19-26) Keywords transition, integration, economic policy Countries covered Ukraine Topics …

Twenty years of transition (by S. Richter; pp. 1-8) Keywords transition Countries covered New EU Member States Topics …

MENA in transition any lessons from CESEE? (by Peter Havlik and Sándor Richter; pp. 1-7) Keywords MENA, transition …

This paper discusses the transition agenda and provides the key economic characteristics of selected Middle East and … to identify some regularities in transition processes and to draw policy lessons for MENA countries. Among the key … overcome, yet the transition will not require a radical overhaul of the existing system. The sine qua non condition is to …

Patterns of transition (by K. Poznanski, J. Poznanska and H.Y. Liu; pp. 1-11) Keywords transition, shock therapy …