While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies has given rise to discussions concerning job losses and de-industrialisation, developments in the host countries of relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with...

The Eastern Neighbourhood is an important area for the European Union in terms of markets, investment location, energy supply, etc. The stabilization of the area by improving conditions for doing business in both economic and political terms is a primary interest of EU members and their business...

The first part of the publication contains an analysis of the latest FDI trends complemented by detailed methodological explanations. After years of continuous growth, FDI inflows to the CEECs stagnated in 2008. Their decline in the NMS and in the SEE countries was compensated by a virtual boom...

The paper addresses the period preceding and following the EU accession in 2004 reconstructing the major developments in trade and FDI. It relies on the detailed bilateral trade and FDI data of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The assessment sheds new light on the growth and...

The differences in the transformation process have resulted in a diverging economic development in Hungarian and Romanian regions while their contacts have intensified. The less developed part of a more developed country meets the more developed part of a lesser-developed country. A firm- survey...

Daten über ausländische Direktinvestitionen werden oft als Indikator für die Attraktivität eines Transformationslandes angesehen oder als Beweis für die Integration osteuropäischer Unternehmen in die Weltwirtschaft. Das WIIW und das WIFO haben nun eine Datenbank über ausländische...

The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW) presents a survey of economic developments in Eastern Europe in 1993, with a forecast for 1994. Economic disparity among the regions east-central Europe, south-eastern Europe and the CIS became more pronounced in 1993. There are...

The Eastern Neighbourhood is an important area for the European Union in terms of markets, investment location, energy supply, etc. The stabilization of the area by improving conditions for doing business in both economic and political terms is a primary interest of EU members and their business...

Romanian SMEs can directly benefit from the Sectoral Operational Programme “Increase of Economic Competitiveness” (SOP IEC) and some parts of the Regional Operational Programme (ROP) in the 2007–2013 period. There has been wide interest for these subsidies on behalf of SMEs but major...

The FDI inflow to Central, East and Southeast Europe reached a new high in 2006, EUR 77 billion, 30% more than in the previous year. But the FDI inflow and its growth were unevenly distributed. The inflow was stagnating in the NMS-5 but increasing in Southeast Europe and the European CIS. This...