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| List of figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The economic factors in the collapse of state socialism and the new international environment, 1973-1989 | |
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| Economic crisis, slowdown, and technological transformation in the West and lack of adjustment and decline in the East after 1973 | |
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| The absence of opportunities for technology transfer | |
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| The new international environment: end of the Cold War and the "new world order" | |
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| The "Washington consensus" | |
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| Radical transformation and policy mistakes: dramatic economic decline in the early 1990s | |
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| Deregulation and macroeconomic stabilization | |
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| Marketization | |
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| Privatization | |
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| Policy mistakes and decline | |
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| Toward better times: the European Union and its policy of eastward enlargement | |
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| The European Union's interest in enlargement and integration | |
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| The acquis communautaire and membership in the Union | |
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| The European Union's impact on the transformation of future candidate countries | |
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| The European Union of twenty-seven countries | |
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| Recuperation and growth: the role of foreign direct investment | |
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| Capital inflow and foreign direct investment | |
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| Complementary specialization within the international production network | |
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| Economic restructuring: transforming main sectors, economic recovery, growth, and weaknesses | |
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| Restructuring the economy: infrastructure and services, the most dynamic sectors | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Industrial restructuring | |
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| Restructured foreign trade | |
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| Economic recovery and growth | |
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| Economic weaknesses | |
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| Transformation and social shock | |
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| Longing for Western life and starting to adopt it | |
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| The social pain of transformation | |
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| Societies in shock | |
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| Lasting changes in the structure of income, employment, welfare institutions, education, and settlement | |
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| Living standards, unemployment, and poverty | |
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| A withering welfare state | |
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| Changing demographic trends | |
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| Educational changes | |
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| Structural changes in society | |
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| Settlement structure: unchanged urbanization level, but changing cities | |
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| Epilogue: the future of catching up in the European "melting pot" | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |