Product Description: Protectionism is a major concern in the international trading community. The question that arises is how the emergence of protectionism can be prevented and whether regional trade arrangements are a suitable mechanism to enforce liberal trade policies...read more

Product Description: The events in Seattle and other cities around the world demonstrate that globalization and trade liberalization are currently under severe pressure. There are also reasons to believe that these pressures are being translated into measures to increase the protection of domestic markets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Volatility in emerging markets has become a familiar problem in the cases of Latin America and Asia; the particularities of the same phenomenon in the new market economies of Eastern Europe - the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary - are of newer vintage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The book examines in depth the progress of reform in the banking sector in Eastern Europe - which is a key element in its transition to the market. Particular emphasis is placed on the problem of bad debts owed by companies to banks, and on criteria and options for overcoming this serious problem...read more