Introduction : Karl Polanyi and the transformations of socialism and postsocialism -- Market principle, market place and the transition in Eastern Europe -- From production to property : land tenure and citizenship in rural Hungary -- A new double movement? : anthropological perspectives on...

Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to shape economic activity in a wide range...

The Environment for Europe process is a political framework for a wide range of initiatives that aim to improve environmental performance across the wider European region. This brochure describes the European Commissionu0092s contributions to the process and environmental co-operation in the...

This thematic report examines the extent to which Phare Programmes have achieved their Civil Society objectives. The purpose of the report is to providing a tool to support those responsible, in the Commission Services as well as in the 10 Candidate Countries (CC), for the design and...

This paper puts forward a global macro model comprising 43 countries and covering the period from Q1 1995 to Q4 2011. Our regional focus is on countries in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Applying a global VAR (GVAR) model, we...