Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Development - Economic Development

'There is no denying that achieving social and political stability and sustainable development will take years for most countries. Nor will progress towards these goals be smooth or automatic. Several factors indicate how difficult this road will be.' The past decade of transition and conflict has left the South East European region with a legacy of inadequate growth and declining living standards. In the past several years, overall growth has declined, increasing the gap between these economies and the rest of Europe. More alarming is that there has been a deterioration in living standards,...

The agrarian economies of Central Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are at present undergoing a systemic change and transformation from planned economies to market economies based on private ownership. However, the transformation is a far more complicated and complex process than imagined. This volume presents an overview of the agricultural situation and the status of the reforms in the agrarian sector in Central and Eastern Europe and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It provides benchmark information for studying problems of this difficult transition in...