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Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: October 2000 )

Today, there are over 20 countries classified as transition economies. It is undeniable that a basic and essential challenge for all transition economies is still the attraction of investment and, in...

Standards and Regulations in International Trade

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: August 2000 )

This publication summarizes the proceedings of the Round Table on Standards, Norms and Regulations and their Impact on International Trade, focused primarily on central and eastern European countries...

Polish Experience of Transition, The

Accomplishments and Problems

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: February 2001 )

This publication discusses the different aspects of transition Poland has experienced during the last decade. The guide looks at encouraging private entrepreneurship; problems of stock exchanges in a...

Trade Finance in Transition Economies

Practical Ways to Support Exports and Imports

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: August 1999 )

The development of foreign trade in the transition economies depends largely on the availability of competitive exports and convertible currency funds for imports. This publication addresses practical...

World Economic and Social Survey 1999

Trends and Policies in the World Economy

Series: World Economic and Social Survey (WESS)

( Print: October 1999, PDF: September 1999 )

Part one. State of the World Economy: provides a chronicle of how large parts of the world economy were sent reeling in the past two years by the fragility of financial systems and their international...

Estudio Económico y Social Mundial, 1999

Tendencias y Políticas en la Economía Mundial

Series: Estudio Económico y Social Mundial

( Print: January 2000 )

El propósito del Estudio Económico y Social Mundial es hacer un balance de la situación de los últimos tiempos para determinar la dirección en que probablemente se encaminará la economía en el futuro...

World Economic and Social Survey 2014/2015

Learning from National Policies Supporting MDG Implementation

Series: World Economic and Social Survey (WESS)

( Print: February 2016, PDF: February 2016 )

The year 2015 was one of global action concerning the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other challenges. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development along with a set of new Sustainable...

World Economic and Social Survey 2012

In Search of New Development Finance

Series: World Economic and Social Survey (WESS)

( Print: June 2012, PDF: June 2012 )

The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) is a yearly publication that provides objective analysis of pressing long-term social and economic development issues, and discusses the positive and...

World Economic and Social Survey 2013

Sustainable Development Challenges

Series: World Economic and Social Survey (WESS)

( Print: July 2013, PDF: June 2013 )

The 2015 deadline to meet the targets of the Millennium Development Goals is fast approaching. There has been significant progress, but it is uneven. Meanwhile the context within which development...

Services in Transition Economies

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: July 2002 )

The rapid development of the services sector in domestic and international trade has been a major feature of the world’s economic development over the last thirty or more years. At the same time...