The paper targets the specific problem of economic transition, i.e. how the former socialist countries could recover from severe recession of the years after the political change. The concept of "sustainable" growth as it is used here has nothing to do with the old debate, as to whether business...

This paper intends to outline some of the factors (both international and domestic) that could influence the economic development of the Central and Eastern European countries in the coming 3-4 years. In the first section we present a brief summary of economic performance of (some groups of)...

This paper argues that Eastern enlargement of the European Union, which is to be accomplished de jure as of May 1, 2004, will not bring about any further significant changes in trade and economic cooperation between Russia and the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)....