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 …