Social Monitor 2002 reviews recent socio-economic developments in the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It contains three articles: Social trends in transition: an update on trends in a range of topics including income and poverty, fertility,...

This paper has three parts. The first examines the problems of Romanian children at risk in their natural families; the second analyses the conditions of abandoned children, children in institutions and other children in special circumstances of risk; and the third offers a summary of the...

Ein rascher Beitritt der Länder Mittel- und Osteuropas erscheint unter den derzeitigen Bedingungen - insbesondere bei einer weiteren Vertiefung der EU - nicht möglich, selbst wenn er auf die Visegrádstaaten beschränkt bliebe. Insbesondere der erhebliche Bedarf an EU-Haushaltsmitteln würde...

Rapid fall of communism was a surprise to Romanian economists. They lacked any theoretical guide to explain such a historic event and allow them to analyze economic and social processes that followed. Neither political economy of socialism, neither Keynesian nor neoclassical theory have allowed...

The current crisis has proven the importance of the national banking system. Sovereign funds will play an important role in reinforcing the position of several emerging countries and markets in the world. The great amount of financing needed in order to fix the problems and the gaps brought by...