Monthly Report No. 8-9/2007

The new EU members' competitiveness in trade in services (by J. Wörz, pp. 1-6) Countries covered Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia Topics International Trade and Competitiveness; Services A brief history of Poland's nominal convergence (by L. Podkaminer and A. Slawinski, pp. 7-10) Countries covered Poland Topics Fiscal and Monetary Policy A More General Theory of Unemployment and Inequality (by J. K. Galbraith, pp. 11-14) Countries covered non-specific Topics Labour and Migration Selected monthly data on the economic situation in ten transition countries, 2005-2007 (pp. 15-25) 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. 26)