encompass a very broad agenda, but in Poland's case such a challenge boils down to the objective of reducing the convergence … productivity and competitiveness. The Poland Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is the first ICA piloted in the World Bank …. The Poland ICA provides benchmark data to assess firm-level performance in other countries in the Europe and Central Asia …

structural model estimated on quarterly data for Macedonia and Slovakia over 1995-2007. The success of macroeconomic … Slovakia, the authors find that Macedonia has relatively weaker transmission mechanisms of monetary policy, higher output … relative to Slovakia. Hence, it appears that small, open economies with stronger economic rigidities should apply monetary …

's generally high living standards and overall level of development, there are families in Slovakia whose living conditions are …

practices in the Slovak Republic. Slovakia has already upgraded its legislation to meet European Union (EU) Directives. The … benchmark against which to measure corporate governance in Slovakia. …

An International Monetary Fund-World Bank team assessed Slovakia's financial sector in the context of the Financial … financial sector. This report gives an overall assessment of the financial sector in Slovakia. The report gives an updated …-bank financial institutions, pension funds, capital markets and the financial infrastructure of Slovakia. The report also discusses …

qualitative information, collected through field visits in Eastern Slovakia and through interviews with key stakeholders from the … a distant goal for Slovakia. The remainder of this report provides an overview of the assessment of the situation in … in Eastern Slovakia held school segregation as illegal. More of such cases may emerge, especially in light of the 2007 …