The collapse of the communist regime in Central and South-Eastern Europe gave way to sweeping economic and socio-political changes, marked by the conversion of centrally planned state economies into market economies, political liberalisation and democratisation, as well as to integration into...

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Ce rapport présente les résultats de l’évaluation de la coopération de la Commission européenne (CE) en Bolivie entre 1996 et 2006. Il s’agit d’une « évaluation-pays » dont les objectifs sont, d’une part, de fournir une appréciation globale et indépendante de la coopération de...

Greater China comprising the PR China, Hong Kong and Taiwan 1 does not exist as an entity, neither as a trading arrangement nor as a monetary arrangement or political grouping. Yet, both the reminiscence of a common history and the ethnical homogeneities have always stimulated fantasies of how...

This paper suggests that current research on international business should provide for a more prominent role of Politics in its analysis. International research examines transactions that reach across national borders, yet nations and their borders have so far not been sufficiently...

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

The marked decline of oil prices gives some impetus to business activity in the euro area. However, medium-term prospects are dominated by lack of aggregate demand and very low inflation; moreover, the lacking possibility of currency de- or re-valuation, notably the under-valuation for Germany,...