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List of figures | |
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List of tables | |
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List of boxes | |
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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 | |