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Objectives of Functioning of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development at an International Level and in the Republic of M...
Petroia, Andrei - 2017
The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development together comprise the foundation of the global and European economic system and are extremely close in the intertwinement of their ideologies, purposes and operations, even though EBRD is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955244
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Unified China and Divided Europe
Ko, Chiu Yu - 2017
This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We argue that a severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered centralization in China while Europe faced a wider variety of smaller external threats and remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973583
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Political Factors Behind Cuts and Surges in Government Spending : The Effects on Old Market Democracies and Post-Communist Countries
Yanovskiy, Konstantin - 2020
Surges and cuts are explained here by some of the political factors affecting governments' abilities to balance the budget broadly discussed in the literature. We focus on territorial separatism, minority government, grand coalition, single-party government, and the ruling party's ideology....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855816
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Can International Legal Principles Promote the Resolution of Central and East European Transboundary Environmental Disputes?
Williams, Paul R. - 2012
The fall of communism and the subsequent opening of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have revealed a regional ecosystem under serious strain after over forty years of communist stewardship. Although the entire region suffers from an exploited ecosystem, particular destruction has occurred in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171093
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The economy of the Sino-Soviet Alliance : trade and transfers between Eastern Europe and China during the early Cold War
Chen, Tao; Zofka, Jan - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 2, pp. 575-610
This article examines the research literature on the economic aspects of the "Sino-Soviet Alliance", which lasted from the end of the Chinese Civil war until the Sino-Soviet split (1949-1960/63). The Soviet and Eastern European contribution to China's industrialization, called the "largest...
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Scientific impact of central and eastern European higher education lecturers
Sajter, Domagoj - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 67 (2021) 3, pp. 17-28
The purpose of this paper is to obtain and analyse data on the higher education lecturers at the 16 largest, state-owned faculties of economics in seven central and eastern European countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia), about...
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Pros and cons of e-learning in economics and business in Central and Eastern Europe : cross-country empirical investigation
Głodowska, Agnieszka; Wach, Krzysztof; Knežević, … - In: Business systems research : a system view accross … 13 (2022) 2, pp. 28-44
Background: The ongoing information and technological revolution, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic, accelerated the use of e-learning worldwide. Objectives: This article aims to present the results of our empirical research among students of economics and business from Central and Eastern Europe...
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VICTIMIZATION AND FEAR OF CRIME IN ROMANIA AND HUNGARY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (English version)
ANDREESCU, VIVIANA - In: Revista Romana de Sociologie 3-4 (2010), pp. 163-183
representative samples of persons aged 15 and over in Romania (N=2139) and Hungary (N=1518), this comparative study will explore the … Hungary appear to be significantly higher than in Romania. However, the fear of victimization is, on average, significantly … more intense in Romania than in Hungary. Although results show that in both countries, persons with higher levels of trust …
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GEOPOLITICAL PROCESS IN EASTERN EUROPE AFTER IRON CURTAIN – ENERGY ISSUES. A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE (English version)
BICHIR, Elena-Cristina - In: Social Research Reports 21 (2012) June, pp. 5-22
Starting from geopolitical events that influenced the emergence of the Iron Curtain and continuing with geopolitical developments that occurred after the communist period, this paper analyses, from a sociological perspective, the controversial topic of energy in Eastern Europe. I am firstly...
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Institutions, competitiveness and economic adjustment in Eastern Europe
Booth, Simon A.; Basu, Anuradha - 1994
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