Film-making competition: meet the finalists

Earlier this year we worked with TVE to sponsor part of their Biomovies competition, an initiative that invited film-makers to create short films on environmental themes.
It has been a huge success with many more entries than last year’s …
Region-specific constraints to doing business in Russia
Little is known about the exact nature of regional differences in terms of constraints to doing business. Broadly, two sets of indicators of the regional business environment are available. The first is objective measures of its various components, such as infrastructure, financial deepening or registered crime. The second is subjective expert assessments of the quality of institutions and investment risk in the regions.
Policy tightening at home and abroad weighs on short-term growth prospects, but should help Emerging Europe in the longer term
Authors: Franziska Ohnsorge, Piroska M Nagy, Peter Sanfey
We’ve just published our latest update on Emerging Europe and Central Asia’s economic outlook which indicates that the recovery in the transition economies is progressing with important exceptions, and highlights the key factors …





