Closing The Eu East-west Productivity Gap: Foreign Direct Investment, Competitiveness And Public Policy

Addresses one of the key problems facing the EU such as: Why is the 'new' EU so much poorer than the 'old', and how will EU enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, this book looks in particular at the role that foreign investment and R&D can play in closing it.