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Slovenia:
From Yugoslavia to the European Union |
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by Mojmir Mrak, Matija Rojec
and Carlos Silva-Jáuregui (eds.)
The World Bank, March 2004
500 pages
ISBN 0-8213-5718-2
USD 28.00 |
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Slovenia's
achievements over the past several years have been remarkable.
Thirteen years after independence from the former Socialist
Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, the country is among the
most advanced of all the transition economies in Central and
Eastern Europe and a leading candidate for accession to the
European Union in May 2004. Remarkably, however, very little
has been published documenting this historic transition.
In the only book of its kind, the contributors - many of them
the architects of Slovenia's current transformation - analyse
the country's three-fold transition from a command to a market
economy, from a regionally based to a national economy, and
from a part of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia
to a member of the European Union.
With chapters from Slovenia's president, a former vice prime
minister, the current and previous ministers of finance, the
minister of European Affairs, the current and former governors
of the Bank of Slovenia, as well as from leading development
scholars in Slovenia and abroad, this unique collection synthesizes
Slovenia's recent socioeconomic and political history and assesses
the challenges ahead. Contributors discuss the Slovenian style
of socioeconomic transformation, analyse Slovenia's quest for
EU membership, and place Slovenia's transition within the context
of the broader transition process taking place in Central and
Eastern Europe.
Of interest to development practitioners and to students and
scholars of the region, Slovenia: From Yugoslavia to the European
Union is a comprehensive and illuminating study of one country's
path to political and economic independence. |
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