Monthly Report No. 1/2016 - Special Issue: Reality Check – wiiw Economists Reflect on 25 Years of Transition
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Vladimir Gligorov, Peter Havlik, Gabor Hunya, Michael Landesmann, Leon Podkaminer, Sandor Richter and Hermine Vidovic
wiiw Monthly Report No. 1, January 2016
42 pages including 3 Tables and 22 Figures
- Graph of the month: Selected living standard indicators, 1990, 2014 (p. 1)
- Understanding transition (by Vladimir Gligorov; pp. 2-6)
- Expectations of transition and real outcomes in retrospect (by Peter Havlik; pp. 7-10)
- Remembering transition (by Gábor Hunya; pp. 11-13)
- An economist’s tale (by Michael Landesmann; pp. 14-17)
- Illusions lost … ? (by Leon Podkaminer; pp. 18-19)
- Looking at the early transition through the ‘reformer’s glasses’ (by Sándor Richter; pp. 20-22)
- Personal reflections on the case of Slovenia (by Hermine Vidovic; pp. 23-25)
- Recommended reading (p. 26)
- Statistical Annex: Monthly and quarterly statistics for Central, East and Southeast Europe (pp. 27-48)
Reference to wiiw databases: wiiw Annual Database, wiiw Monthly Database
Keywords: living standard indicators, transition countries, transition
Countries covered: CEE, CIS, Hungary, Poland, Romania, SEE, Slovenia, former Yugoslavia