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 …

in improving financial literacy in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the first two countries where the World Bank provided …. This study describes the impact the pioneering work of the World Bank team had on the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and how …

Slovakia's transport sector has not suffered from the dramatic reductions in demand and neglect of its infrastructure … will face when Slovakia enters the European Union, hopefully at the beginning of 2004. There is now a short window of …