Dieses Buch untersucht die Anpassungserfordernisse in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Die Systemwechsel in Polen, Ungarn, der slowakischen und der tschechischen Republik haben bislang nicht zu prosperierenden Volkswirtschaften geführt. Die Reformländer sind vom Einkommensniveau ihrer westlichen...

Fiscal policy in Poland faces challenges both in the view of the critical position of public finance in the recent years and the UE accession. The Polish economy performance in the Union, when assessed from the perspective of the participation in the euro area, requires not only the fulfilment...

Fifteen years ago, on April 5, 1989, after two months’ negotiations between the coalition government and the Solidarity-led opposition, the Round Table agreements set in motion the transformation process. Today, Poland is on the eve of a landmark event – the accession to the European Union,...

There are good reasons to assume that in the longer term Poland's economic growth will be unimpressive at best. This pessimistic judgement, however, does not reflect a sceptical evaluation of Poland's potential, but rather an evaluation of the merits of the current international economic order....

Poland's overall competitive position in the enlarged EU has been weakening. Other new EU members, as well as the candidate countries Romania and Bulgaria have been performing better since about 2000 on both important counts: GDP growth, and employment growth. Although Poland's external...