"The authors analyze the extent to which the EU-15 and 16 transition economies used the WTO General Agreement on Trade … policy stances over time. While there is substantial variance across transition economies on both actual policies and GATS … GATS less relevant as a commitment device for a subset of transition economies. But for many of the non-EU accession …

share of services in GDP, employment, and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition … services policy reform are statistically significant explanatory variables for the post-1990 economic performance of transition …

Transition was never going to be easy, even with the highly promising long-run outlook. Not only was the process itself …

"The paper reviews labor market developments in the transition economies of Europe and Central Asia. It argues that the … facing the transition economies. In the European transition economies the lack of jobs has led to persistent open … productivity employment). Unemployment in the European transition economies is supported by the developed social safety net. In …

How 12 transition economies dealt with banking crises …