Economics Survey of Europe, 1998: Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Issue 2Find analyses of the development of the European economy and changes to economic policies of Eastern and Western Europe. Data include output and the structure of demand, costs, prices, income, employment and unemployment, and foreign trade and payments. Chapters cover: the current economic situation in the ECE economies and the short-run outlook; the western market economies; and the transition economies. Tables and charts present data on expectations and outcomes, labor markets, costs and prices, external balances, monetary policy and monetary conditions, output and demand, macroeconomic policies, external financial development in the transition economies, and foreign trade. A statistical appendix; a list of tables, charts, and boxes; explanatory notes; source notes; and a list of abbreviations are also featured. |
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activity adjustment arrears assets bad loans Baltic banking sector banking system bankruptcy behaviour Belarus billion budget constraints Bulgaria capital cent central bank companies competition corporate governance costs creditors crisis Czech Republic debt debtor dollar domestic eastern Europe eastern German manufacturing eastern Länder Eickelpasch employees enterprise restructuring enterprise sector European exchange rate exports financial markets financial system framework funds German or foreign Goskomstat growth Hungary important incentives increased industrial output inflation institutions interest rates investment investors labour Länder Latvia lending liquidation macroeconomic major managers market economies National statistics owners ownership paper payments performance Poland portfolio Private firms problems production profits programme quarter of 1998 real GDP recapitalization reform reorganization Republic of Macedonia Republic of Moldova risk role Romania rouble Russian Federation share Slovakia Slovenia Source structure transition countries transition economies Treuhand Treuhand firms UN/ECE voucher voucher privatization western