Almost all non-EU CESEE countries have converged with Western Europe over the past three decades. However, the pace of convergence has been mixed. For non-EU CESEE countries as a whole, convergence has generally developed at a slower pace than for EU member states in the region.Econometrically,...

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Trade and access to international capital markets are often assumed to support countries’ development, notably through technology transfers that support convergence. In this chapter we review economic developments in the EU Central, Eastern and Southeastern (CESEE) countries (namely Bulgaria,...