The Russian economy relies on the Russian freight railways to an extraordinary degree. In 2001, after years of debate, the Russian government adopted an ambitious plan to transform this vertically integrated, government owned monopoly into a system that would rely more on private investment and...

One important determinant of the speed and success of transition will be the efficiency of transformation and development of the infrastructure sectors. A great deal of attention has been paid to issues such as privatisation, restructuring, user prices, and terms of access in these sectors,...

Die Studie untersucht im einzelnen die Probleme und Erfolgsaussichten der Umstrukturierung Mittel- und Osteuropas. In einem ersten Untersuchungsabschnitt werden in einer Länderquerschnittsanalyse für diese Länder die Gemeinsamkeiten der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung bis zum Umbruch im Jahre...

This paper presents major environmental challenges in Bulgarian agriculture, and identifies and assesses specific modes for environmental governance in farming sector, and estimate prospects for changing environmental performance of farms in conditions of EU integration and Common Agricultural...