Over fifteen years have elapsed since the transition from the centrally planned economic system started in the early 1990âs. During this time agricultural and rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone profound structural changes with wide variations in the degree of...

The current publication covers Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99, the FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, and provides an overview of the agricultural situation in the European Union (EU) candidate and potential candidate countries of the Western Balkans (WBs)....

The discussion paper 39 represents the results of an analysis for determining influencing factors on profits and profitability of Russian enterprises in the region of Omsk. Based on the final yearly reports of the enterprises it is shown, that in Russia five earning ratios can be distinguished:...

Discussion Paper 32 contains information on property relations and profitability of 100 Russian large-scale farm enterprises, gathered in interviews in the Volgograd region in 2000. They are an integrated part of research activities concerning the privatisation and restructuring of farm...

The aim of the discussion paper is firstly to obtain an overview of the ownership structures in agricultural enterprises of the Novosibirsk (Russia) and Shitomir (Ukraine) oblasts and to compare them.. Another aim was to compare the results also with findings from other oblasts, in order to...