Turkey and Central and Eastern European Countries in Transition: Towards Membership of the EU [Hardcover]

.,."articles are excellent and informative..." --"International Journal of Turkish Studies"

This book offers a comparative study of the Central and Eastern European and Turkish economies that analyses the implications of EU enlargement. The contributors discuss issues related to the creation of a legal infrastructure that encourages entrepreneurial initiative, fair competition, market forces and investor confidence. They assess the benefits of following prudent monetary and fiscal policies together with appropriate competition, trade and foreign direct investment policies in Turkey and Central and Eastern Europe.

S. TOGAN is Professor of Economics at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He has published extensively on international trade issues. His publications include Foreign Trade Regime and Trade Liberalization in Turkey During 1980s and The Economy of Turkey since Liberalization (edited with V.N. Balasubramanyam).

V.N. BALASUBRAMANYAM is Professor of Development Economics at Lancaster University. He has published extensively on international investment and development issues. He is author of The Economy of India: Meeting the Third World Challenge (with A.I.MacBean) and Multinationals in the Third World.