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The New Silk Road as a Door-Opener to the Markets of Central and Eastern Europe

Arnold Schuh, the Director of the Center, was invited to give a speech on the “Symposium on New Markets for Hong Kong Electrical Appliance Industries”.

What can we expect in China in 2018?

Over the past couple of months, Chinese President Xi has positioned many new leaders and made his objectives for China very clear, so the practical implementation of these policies are now expected.

Are autocracies gaining ground against democracies?

The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) has been analyzing and monitoring the quality of democracy, market economy and governance in 126 developing and transformational countries on a…

How to tap the mobile money opportunity in Emerging Markets?

McKinsey&Company estimates that the mobile money has the potential to reach over 1.6 billion new retail customers in emerging economies and to increase the volume of loans extended to individuals and…

Forget about Berlin, Dublin, Amsterdam - the new start-up hotspots are in Central Eastern Europe!

The World Economic Forum reports about some new unexpected places that have become new European start-up hotspots and they are all in the CEE region.

Do emerging markets in CEE need to find a new growth model?

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) argues in their Transition Report 2017-18 that many emerging markets of former Eastern Bloc and Central Asia are stuck in a “middle-income…

Süßes AUS der alten FÜR die neue Heimat

Nach einem Studium in Syrien und einem Praktikum am WU-Kompetenzzentrum für Emerging Markets & CEE hat Hisham Hawat das orientalische Süßwarengeschäft "Taybat" in der Wiener Thaliastraße eröffnet

Ukraine: Dimensionen der Transformation

Tadeusz A. Olszański vom OSW - Zentrum für Oststudien - publiziert aus gegebenem Anlass die Studie "Ein Viertel Jahrhundert unabhängige Ukraine: Dimensionen der Transformation"

We congratulate Desislava Dikova for 3 years at Journal of East-West Business

WU professor Desislava Dikova, deputy director of the Competence Center for Emerging Markets & Central and Eastern Europe, is editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal.

Neue Publikation: Zentralasien und die Seidenstraße

WU-Alumnus Stephan Barisitz liefert einen profunden und bis in die jünste Gegenwart reichenden Abriss der zentralasiatischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte im allgemeinen und der Seidenstraße im besonderen.