MEASURING PROGRESS IN TRANSITION AND TOWARDS EU ACCESSION
Author: WENDY CARLIN
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 67
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The EU’s Transformative Power
Author: H. Grabbe
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-11-10
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0230510302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1989 and 2004, the EU's conditionality for membership transformed Central and East Europe. The EU had enormous potential power over the whole range of domestic politics in the candidate countries. However, the EU was able to use that power at a few key points in the process leading to their accession. The EU's long-term influence worked primarily through soft power and through voluntary rather than coercive means. During the membership preparations, the EU built many different routes of influence into the candidate countries' domestic policy-making through 'Europeanization'. The Central and East Europeans voluntarily took on the Union's norms and methods, guided by the European Commission, in a massive transfer of policies and institutions. However, the EU missed important opportunities to effect change as well. The EU's Transformative Power explores in detail how the EU used its influence to control the movement of people across Europe, through both coercive use of conditionality and voluntary methods of Europeanization.
Cross-Border Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Europe's Border Regions
Author: David Smallbone
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1781952167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is concerned with entrepreneurship and economic development in EuropeÕs border regions, focusing on the effects of EU enlargement on these regions, both within the EU and in neighbouring countries. Particular attention is paid to cross-border entrepreneurial activity. Cross-border cooperation involving entrepreneurs is attracting increasing attention in Europe as EU enlargement has increased the length of its borders with the former Soviet republics. The expert contributors highlight that border regions tend to be economically disadvantaged as a result of their peripherality, which means that cross-border cooperation for business purposes represents a potential development tool. This groundbreaking book contains an empirical evidence base drawn from regions in EU member states and the Newly Independent States, as well as providing a conceptual base for informed policy development. This insightful book will prove invaluable for academics and students of entrepreneurship, economics, development and European studies.
International Bibliography of Economics
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001-11-22
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780415262361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.
Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
Author: Laixiang Sun
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-10-16
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1403943907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConventional wisdom recommends the superiority of private ownership of enterprises. The reality confronts it with a rich diversity in ownership and governance structures. This volume examines five types of unorthodox ownership and governance form emerging in the industrial sector across major economies. It analyzes two cases to demonstrate that there are alternative ways to harden budget constraints of state-owned enterprises. It investigates the driving forces behind these evolving dynamics and explores policy implications for developing and transition economies.
Democratising Capitalism?
Author: Liliana Pop
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2006-09-19
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780719070945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiliana Pop offers a comprehensive analysis of post-communist transformations in the economy, politics and culture of Romania and considers the influence of international financial institutions and the European Union, which Romania are preparing to join.
Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment
Author: M. Federowicz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-12-19
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0230286194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection provides exceptional descriptive and analytical insights into changes in corporate governance settings in ten Eastern and Western European countries. It demonstrates that there exist different varieties of capitalisms and paths to transformation of economic institutions. In addition, it offers detailed discussions about national cases as well as the overall European Union effects. This book should be of great interest to scholars and students of comparative national systems, corporate governance and European studies.
Progress Toward the Unification of Europe
Author: Helena Tang
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780821348031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic (CEECs) are candidates to join an enlarged European Union (EU) in the years to come. The ten are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. This enlargement will bring many opportunities to the both the EU and the candidate countries. For the EU it will bring enhanced weight and influence. For the candidate countries it should mean an improvement of their long term growth prospects by providing access to an open single market. The accession process is providing the impetus for the acceleration of much needed economic, political, institutional and social reforms in some of the CEECs as they strive to meet EU membership requirements. The key for the CEECs is to achieve sustained, high long-term growth in order to meet their ultimate objective of accession. The EU has already concluded agreements with the CEECs which went beyond the narrowly conceived ideas of market access to include the alignment of the CEEC economic system with that of the EU's. This report sets out the future agenda for the successful integration of the CEECs into an enlarged EU. The first priority is for each country to complete its own process of transition to a free market democratic state. In short this will mean that many will have to address: their fiscal challenges, and ensure fiscal sustainability; the challenge of global financial integration, opening of their capital accounts; the strengthening of their administrative capacity; the reduction of unemployment; and the promotion of social inclusion.
Aanwinsten van de Centrale Bibliotheek (Queteletfonds)
Author: Bibliothèque centrale (Fonds Quetelet)
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1008
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Author: Bernard Funck
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 0821353683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Expenditure Policies Toward EU Accession' presents the set of public expenditures that could be conducive to rapid growth and convergence among the Central and Eastern European countries. This report assesses public expenditure policy objectives and provides best practice and lessons learned in designing expenditure reforms within these countries. It also highlights ways in which key expenditure programs such as education, environment, and transport can be redirected so as to be more fully supportive of growth objectives.
