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The Regional Impact of the Global Economic Crisis

Issue Number: 13/2009
The focus of this issue is the socio-economic dimensions of the global economic crisis in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).



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The Regional Impact of the Global Economic Crisis
Where does the crisis leave the ‘good governance’ agenda that has been the dominant paradigm for development since the 1990s?
Implications of the crisis for Eastern Europe
While governments and international institutions have managed to control the contagion effects of the economic crisis, large policy questions remain.
 
Responding to crisis: core and periphery
‘Core’ economies must take responsibility for repairing the global financial system, in part by helping ‘peripheral’ economies weather the storm.
Transition after the crisis
The principal drivers of transition—regional and global trade integration, foreign direct investment—are unlikely to undergo fundamental change due to the recession.
 


State reform in Europe and the CIS amid a global crisis
This issue explores the links between food prices and global economic trends on the one hand, and poverty reduction and sustainable rural development on the other.
This issue analyses the challenges posed by climate change for the Europe and CIS region.
This issue examines questions of energy and the environment in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.



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