in 'growth drivers' which can account for differences in supply-side performance, especially in periods in which major …

The debate on growth versus the environment is usually summarized as optimists believing in limitless growth versus … pessimists seeing environmental and resource limits to growth. This opposition defines the main strategies: namely, striving for … green growth versus some anti-growth approach. In this paper I argue that we should not feel obliged to choose between these …

Part Two, we discuss in greater detail the conditions required to move towards a sustained growth and catching-up process …

Economic growth in Central and East European countries (CEECs) in 2007 was driven primarily by strong domestic demand … the sectoral patterns of growth the main growth engine was industry in the Central European new EU countries and the … markets and a slowdown in Western Europe should dampen the CEECs' growth prospects in 2008 only marginally. The speed of their …

considerably, due to a range of different factors. Poland was an exception, as its GDP growth decelerated without coming to a …, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia put together. The only other country where growth did not stop entirely was Albania. In sharp … be returning to GDP growth rates as high as those they had achieved in the last pre-crisis years. The European and global …