encompass a very broad agenda, but in Poland's case such a challenge boils down to the objective of reducing the convergence … productivity and competitiveness. The Poland Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is the first ICA piloted in the World Bank …. The Poland ICA provides benchmark data to assess firm-level performance in other countries in the Europe and Central Asia …

structural model estimated on quarterly data for Macedonia and Slovakia over 1995-2007. The success of macroeconomic … Slovakia, the authors find that Macedonia has relatively weaker transmission mechanisms of monetary policy, higher output … relative to Slovakia. Hence, it appears that small, open economies with stronger economic rigidities should apply monetary …

Slovakia's transport sector has not suffered from the dramatic reductions in demand and neglect of its infrastructure … will face when Slovakia enters the European Union, hopefully at the beginning of 2004. There is now a short window of …

of the existing rules and practices in Slovakia compared to the draft practices; and (3) provide recommendations on ways … to improve consumer protection in financial services in Slovakia. The Technical Note wasprepared at the request of the … Slovak Ministry of Finance, with the valuable support of the National Bank of Slovakia and other government agencies …

A joint IMF-World Bank Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) mission visited Slovakia from February 14-March 1 … Financial System. This work was seen as being of particular importance in light of Slovakia's eventual accession to the European …

The budget projections for 2008 - 2010 in Slovakia's latest Convergence Program envision the deficit continuing to …