In the process of creating the growth of countries competitiveness, a special role is appointed to foreign direct investment as an important element of the globalization of the economies. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between foreign direct investment and...

More than fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many issues regarding the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy are still being debated. This book presents an evaluation of the transition in Central Eastern Europe, and focuses on the socialist legacy, the...

A decade of transition in a variety of settings: a comparison of country experiences / Mario I. Blejer and Marko ¿ kreb -- Ten years of transition in central Europe and the former Soviet Union: the good news and the not-so-good news / Johannes F. Linn -- Postcommunist transition and...