Trade and capital flows between Russia and the rest of the world are now significant for both partners. The economic reforms introduced in Russia since 1991 have converted an autarkic, highly regulated economy into a relatively open one. The dramatic change followed from the abolition of central...

The paper analyzes the experience of the Central and East European candidate countries with respect to major macro-level changes in the structure of their economy relevant for their catching up. More precisely, the production and utilization sides of the GDP, as well as the structure of...

The article analyzes the requirement recently formulated by different parties of the accession process: the candidate countries should raise their wage level close to the average of the EU even before they join the union. The authors show that wage convergence, defined this way, has no...

This is a report about the fifth workshop from the seminar series of IIASA’s Economic Transition and Integration Project entitled “The Process of EU Accession: Preparation by Learning and Exchange”. The workshop was held in Bratislava on 7-9 February 2002. The first two sections summarize...

This is a report about the fourth workshop from the seminar series of IIASA’s Economic Transition and Integration Project entitled “The Process of EU Accession: Preparation by Learning and Exchange”. The workshop was held in Prague in November, 2000. The first section summarizes recent...

The proposal of KOPINT—DATORG has a special role among concepts on import liberalization in Hungary, primarily due to its comprehensive approach. The concept, having received limited publicity so far, extensively utilizes the liberalization experiences of developing countries. It lays special...

A cikk 12 ország és az Európai Unió - főleg kvantitatív, ezen belül többszektoros modellekre építő - munkapiaci előrejelzési gyakorlatát tekinti át, elsősorban kiinduló pontot és összehasonlítási mércét nyújtva a hasonló hazai előrejelzési munkákhoz. A kvantitatív...