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Over the last two decades, successive governments and business leaders in the former Yugoslav Republic of (FYR) Macedonia have been actively working to transform the country's economy and put it on a higher, technology-based, growth trajectory. For a small, landlocked country with a limited...
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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 …
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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 …
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's generally high living standards and overall level of development, there are families in Slovakia whose living conditions are …
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The Slovak Republic's external current account and fiscal deficits (net of privatization receipts) are unsustainably high (at about 8 percent of GDP in 2002), despite some recent declines. With a capital account surplus of perhaps 20 percent of GDP this year, the Slovak Republic may not find it...
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There is wide agreement that the radical and comprehensive package of reforms implemented by the 2002 government has positioned the Slovak Republic well-not only in relation to other EU8 countries but also in relation to the EU15-in terms of increased competitiveness and employment...
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cities and national capitals, while many areas fall further behind. Slovakia illustrates the difference between national … convergence and subnational divergence. While Slovakia is considered one of the EU's economic stars, it also has some of the union …'s highest regional disparities. Slovakia's impressive economic gains over the last two decades were led by Bratislava region …
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The report examines the current tourism development and market of the Presovsky Samospravny Kraj, Presov Self-Governing Region (PSK), focusing particularly on the lagging district of Snina and the National Park of Poloniny, and the opportunities for their improvement as potential drivers of...
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