appreciable impact. Our research focuses on Belarusian manufacturing. We first determine possible changes in access to foreign …. In order to assess the short-term impact of WTO accession on Belarusian manufacturing, the scenario used assumed a … quantitative assessment was made of the gains and losses by manufacturing branch, followed by a simple sensitivity analysis. The …

to estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of all transition economies and compare them with other fast …-growing economies. The second approach uses panel regression to estimate the determinants of per capita and TFP growth for 90 countries …

This paper analyses the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry in the CEE candidate countries (Bulgaria, the … competitiveness. The CEE candidate countries' market share in extra-EU manufacturing imports grew from 9.5% in 1995 to 11.4% in 1999 …, the EU export surplus in manufacturing trade is diminishing. Candidate countries' exports to the EU have been increasingly …

This paper analyses the structural changes that have taken place in CEE candidate countries' manufacturing industry … of FDI. Employment declined more than output and over five million manufacturing jobs were lost in the region between …. The top five branches account for 60% to more than 70% of manufacturing industry output. The structure of manufacturing …

disaggregated data-set comprising 23 manufacturing industries for which production, employment and trade statistics were compiled …