output, construction, foreign trade and quarterly GDP figures confirm this development. The economic recovery in the 'old EU … Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. A challenge to the enlarged Union's (EU …, only Estonia and Lithuania currently meet all the Maastricht convergence criteria. A brief study of foreign trade data …

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

European Union, New EU Member States Topics Regional Development The new EU members' potential for trade in services (by J …. Wörz, pp. 8-12) Keywords Trade, Services Countries covered New EU Member States Topics International Trade and …

-20) Keywords trade, services, FDI Countries covered Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia Topics International Trade …Hungary taking stock (by J. Kornai; pp. 1-12) Keywords economic policy, reform Countries covered Hungary Topics … Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Developments in trade and FDI in services in the Visegrad countries (by O. Pindyuk; pp. 13 …

Trade and economic integration in the CIS an evaluation (by Vasily Astrov, Peter Havlik and Olga Pindyuk; pp. 1 …-3) Keywords trade, economic integration Countries covered CIS Topics International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI Volume and … variety of intra-bloc trade in an expanded European Union (by Neil Foster; pp. 4-10) Keywords intra-bloc trade, expanded EU …

Hungary suffers from a severe lack of credibility (by Sándor Richter; pp. 1-2) Keywords sovereign default, IMF … Countries covered Hungary Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Russia's WTO accession impacts on Austria (by Vasily Astrov …; pp. 3-11) Keywords WTO, trade, FDI Countries covered Russia, Austria Topics International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI …

–Ukraine conflict little affected by potential trade and investment disruption, more by political escalation (by Gábor Hunya; pp. 7 …-10) Bilateral trade between Bulgaria and Romania the upturn after EU accession (by Sándor Richter; pp. 11-13) Recommended reading (p …

In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices … allows for any discrete number of sectors and countries integrated via trade flows. Technologies are country- and sector …

are added (covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland … in unit labour costs. Despite this (and despite growth being weaker than expected in the euro zone), NMS foreign trade … continues to perform excellently. Foreign trade has been even more instrumental in generating GDP growth in the first quarter of …