The aim of this article is to describe Estonia's economic development strategy in the Baltic Sea region primarily from the perspective of labour costs as a factor in international competitiveness. Estonia's position in the international division of economic activities will be explored based on...

In many countries occur problems from unfunded mandates related to a shift of a function by an upper tier of government to lower rank governments without providing the lower one with financial means to perform these functions. The authors define the unfunded mandates and clarify how they relate...

Dieses Buch untersucht die Anpassungserfordernisse in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Die Systemwechsel in Polen, Ungarn, der slowakischen und der tschechischen Republik haben bislang nicht zu prosperierenden Volkswirtschaften geführt. Die Reformländer sind vom Einkommensniveau ihrer westlichen...