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Women and Economic Changes, 2000-2005
While the other so-called transition countries in the CEE and NIS have started building market economy immidiately after the fall of the Berlin wall, the economic transition in Serbia is late. The reasons are many-sided, and lag behind the process of ‘guided non-development’ during 1980s…
(IN SERBIAN)
The Western Balkans – from “the leopard skin” to European Union
The situation in the Western Balkans is the result of the so-called “leopard skin” politics of the international community. The consequences of this politics are a great number of small states with significant national identity, among those there are still problems due to undefined mutual borders, and all of them lagg behind the realization of the market and democratic reforms. (IN SERBIAN)
Relevance of New Solutions:
The transfer of the global economy into the phase of New Economics more than ever gives significance to the issues of the relevance of new solutions being limited by time and the issues of the knowledge and skills of particular subjects required to deal with change successfully. The problem of changing patterns of successful functioning of the global economy and its subjects does not lie only in the strength of arguments and positions of the participants in the debate.
Position of Women in Montenegro
During the past ten years Montenegrin economy underwent economic transformation, as well as serious social changes. This period is marked by the disintegration of former Yugoslavia, wars in the region, a large number of refugees and internal displaced persons (IDP's) who find shelter in Montenegro (at one moment they represented 12% of the total Montenegrin population, and that was actually the period of the greatest economic, social and political crisis).
The Quintessential Step of
Serbia and Montenegro towards the European Union:
The European Union is the only rational future road to political and economic development for Serbia and Montenegro. At the same time, it is also a powerful guarantee of peace and stability in the region. Serbia and Montenegro is very far from the European integration processes at this moment. In order to make the process of accession faster and easier and at the same time to prevent eventual wars in the near and distant future, this study has the aim of revealing two extraordinary delusions on the part of Serbian people and present day national leaders.
Women’s Rights in the Western Balkans: In the Jaws of the Free Market
The transitional economies of the region have a number of common characteristics, many of these arising from their common experience of structural adjustment. The region’s SAPs, dictated by the IMF, have features familiar from previous SAP experiences in other regions, requiring removal of all obstacles to the international trade and foreign investments, prompt privatisation, labour market flexibility and reduction of all social costs. The new “transitional policy” abolished many of gained economic and social rights, and these social and economic turbulences have mostly negatively influenced marginalized groups, women being the majority of them.
Economic Reform and Poverty: A Gender Analysis
Economic reform in many developing countries has been associated with stabilisation and structural adjustment programmes supported by international financial institutions (IFIs). As these have become more widespread and long term, concern has grown about the impact of economic reform policies on poverty. Evidence is not encouraging, with many countries experiencing increases in poverty under programmes of economic reform in the 1980s, or a worsening of income distribution, with a few exceptions. In recent years, however, it has become evident that the poverty in countries undergoing economic reform is not temporary in nature. Moreover, there is considerable evidence that adjustment policies themselves have contributed to increasing poverty.
Invisible Workers: Women in the Informal Economy in Russia
The results of Russian quasi-reforms was deep economic crisis, break-down of the industry, decline of the production, deterioration of living standard of the population and mass unemployment. The lack of job, and livelihood opportunities drives labour force from the official sphere of employment into the informal economy. The feminisation of poverty and gender discrimination at the labour market are reasons why are women more likely than men to work in the informal economy.
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