Economic policy is an integral part of public policy and is to be based on the accomplishments of economics. If an economic policy is not only far from economics, but in certain cases contradicts its basic postulates and rules, then such an economic policy carried out by the government...

The EU's post-Communist countries as well as the EU in general are participating in the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy which aims to create an economy of knowledge. The usage of catching up is extremely important in achieving this strategy's goals. Unfortunately, the EU's post-Communist...

This book reviews the experience with one specific though widely introduced approach to funding general education, namely per capita financing (PCF), in six countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region in an effort to learn which outcomes were achieved and how. Per capita financing is a...