Monthly Report No. 4/2008

Skills and the competitiveness of EU manufacturing industries (by M. Landesmann and R. Stehrer, pp. 1-11) Keywords skills, competitiveness, manufacturing, EU Countries covered European Union Topics Industry; International Trade and Competitiveness Selected economic impacts of higher oil prices (by Edward Christie, Mario Holzner and Gábor Pellényi, pp. 12-19) Keywords oil prices, inflation Countries covered OECD Topics Macroeconomic Analysis, Forecasts and Policy; Energy Selected monthly data on the economic situation in ten transition countries, 2005-2008 (pp. 20-23) Countries covered Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Russia, Ukraine Guide to wiiw statistical services on Central, East and Southeast Europe, Russia and Ukraine (p. 32)