Die Sozialpolitik im Transformationsprozeß Mittel- und Osteuropas bedarf dringend der Korrektur. Die bisherige Politik hat häufig dazu geführt, daß die ohnehin knappen Ressourcen zwischen den einzelnen Teilgebieten der sozialen Sicherung unangemessen verteilt wurden. Sie hat massive...

Hinsichtlich des im Titel des Beitrages genannten sozialen Preises, den die russische Gesellschaft für die Öffnung zur freien Marktwirtschaft zu zahlen hat, unterteilt der Verfasser drei wesentliche Bereiche: demographische und beschäftigungspolitische Situation und Gesundheitswesen, die...

The absence or the presence of the resource curse is often explained by the specifics of political and institutional factors. The aim of this paper is to study this effect looking separately at economic and political institutions and at their interaction. Unlike most empirical papers in the...

This article is an analysis of relevant Intergovernmental and Host Government Agreements on oil and gas transit pipelines in several parts of the world. The following questions serve as the basis for the analysis: 1. To what extent can common principles and regional specificities be derived from...

Regions differ from each other not only in their economic structure but concerning the impact they have on their neighbors. In the present study interregional spillover activities are analyzed for the regions of the Russian Federation. Instead of knowledge spillovers, more general growth...

The current research has concentrated on the following questions: What are the trends in restructuring Suceava's economy and which regional development factors were the most important (exogenous, endogenous, structural, socio-political ones, etc.)? Which is the relationship between social...