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Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into Central and Eastern Europe declined from a record $31 billion in 2002 to a low of $21 billion last year, the result of the end of privatisation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, according to the World Investment Report 2004: The Shift Towards...
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This paper analyses regional growth in eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. It aims to identify the factors behind growth and to investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
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During the process of the European Union's enlargement to central and Eastern Europe, foreign direct investment (FDI) to these countries increased and will continue increasing after the enlargement. The effect of this investment was generally positive of the receiving countries, notably because...
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This brochure presents the environmental co-operation of the EU with China by highlighting a number of selected …
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Private consumption is a key component in the rebalancing of growth that China is seeking, and a challenging one. Not …. Understanding what drove the consumption share down to a mere 36% of GDP in China is thus vital. This brief explores the many … reasons for the high precautionary savings that followed in the wake of the reform process in China. In particular, the …
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China's economy slowed significantly in the first three quarters of 2012 and questions have been raised on a possible … understand what is driving this slowdown and how lasting it may be given China's importance as an engine for global growth. Is …
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Since the release of the 12th Five-Year Plan in 2011, a reform of China's household registration system – the so … so far (beyond some experiments at the provincial level). In the context of growing urbanisation pressures in China, a …
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China's economy is at a cross roads. The factors that have driven its economic transformation over the last decades are …-income' trap, China's leaders are attempting to engineer a reorientation of the economy towards more sustainable sources of growth …. While considerable success has been achieved, more needs to be done more quickly before the authorities in China can prove …
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