Als Polen 1989/90 mit radikalen Reformen den Weg in die Marktwirtschaft einschlug, war man davon ausgegangen, daß der Agrarsektor aufgrund des großen Anteils privater Betriebe einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu einem möglichst reibungslosen Übergang der Gesamtwirtschaft leisten könnte....

This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil, one for the state of Bahia, the other for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The two initiatives are not linked and their implementation has independently sprung from a search for...

At the end of the first half of the transitional period, this communication privides an overview of the preparations undertaken so fare and those required for the final changeover to the euro at the beginning of 2002. Two events are associated with the end of the transitional period: as from 1...