The Western Balkan countries, which are in the late transition process, fail to take advantage of the opportunities … brought by globalization and the removal of restrictions to the free flow of capital, technology, knowledge, people and … the examination of the impact of globalization on the reached level of competitiveness of the economies of the Western …

social indicators, such as GDP growth, labour market outcomes, and poverty and inequality, for the period since the fall of … productivity. Total FDI has had only limited effects on inequality and poverty, but FDI from Germany and Austria has been found to … reduce both inequality and poverty, likely because they have benefitted mainly lower-income persons. There are differences in …

earnings inequality during the post-transition period using panel data from Hungarian Wage and Earnings Survey and other …, contributes to research of wage gaps in post-transition economies. …

globalization actually stands to reduce the levels of poverty and inequality worldwide. He poses the question as to whether …This book examines the two fundamental arguments that are often raised against globalization: that it produces … inequality and that it increases poverty. Here Guillermo De la Hesa, Chairman of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR …