Publisher's Synopsis
Contents: Ten years of economic transformation in the Czech way; Hungarian economy: prediction and outcome; Economic development of Poland in the period 1992--2005: verification of the forecast; Main trends in Slovakia's economic development; Socio-political processes in the Czech Republic; Social development in Hungary; Changes in the Hungarian political structure; Poland 2000: social expectation and reality; Socio-political development in Slovakia: 'Scenario 2005' revised; Czech Republic: Science, technology and education; Education, science and technology in Hungary; science and technology in Poland at the turn of the centuries; Poland 2000: education or wasted opportunities; Science, technology, education in Slovakia; Regional development in the Czech Republic: the 1993 scenario revised; Regional development in Hungary; Regional dimension of Polish transformation: seven years later; Regional patterns in Slovak development.
