Vietnam, Deutschland – zwei Länder, wie sie in kultureller, sozialer, wirtschaftlicher und politischer Hinsicht kaum unterschiedlicher sein können. Die verschiedenen Beiträge des Bandes behandeln jedoch ein gemeinsames Thema: die Zukunft der Städte in beiden Ländern, fokussiert auf den...

This article discusses China’s incremental approach to SOE reform, the difficulties of continuing this approach as the need to make efficiency gains across all sectors of the economy becomes more acute, and future reform options and the challenges in carrying them out.

The all-round aspects of bilateral relations are considered in the common Ukrainian-Polish monograph. Authors uncover important features of social-andeconomic systems convergence under conditions of globalization and European integration, as well as the further transformation of Central- and...

A technológiai-gazdasági paradigmára épülő elmélet alkalmas elemzési keretet nyújt a technológiai és az intézményi változások összefonódásának megértésében. Csak lassú intézményi átalakulási folyamat során alakul ki az összhang az új technológia és az...

This paper re-examines the sources of inequality in Vietnam, a transitional economy with large reductions in poverty from recent and dramatic economic growth, but vastly unequal gains across ethnic groups. Using an instrumental variable approach to provide consistent estimators of explanatory...

This paper studies the institutional reform process in Central Asia from 1995 to 2006. I compare the institutional reform processes of Central Asian countries to those conducted in their neighbouring countries of Central and (South) Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The paper identifies...