Improving Business Environment in CEE Countries   as a Factor of Their Membership in the European Union. Comparative Aspects between Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary

Zofia Wysokińska

doi:10.18778/1508-2008.9.12

Authors

Zofia Wysokińska

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1508-2008.9.12

Abstract

The chapter focuses on the comparison of the most important macro- and micro- determinants shaping the business environment in CEE countries in the period before the membership in the EU. The paper will examine and compare the most important effects of the internalization and modernization processes in the analyzed countries with special reference to:

structural changes in foreign trade, FDI and GDP formation, indices of competitiveness on the European internal market in relation to the EU market openness (reduction of tariffs barriers and quantitative restrictions for industrial products) and to their adaptation to external tariffs level and EU common trade policy,

macro-economic stability -adaptation to Economic and Monetary Union convergence criteria,

changes in the level of enterpreneurship measured by the activity of SME's enterprises,

changes in the level of innovativeness of SME's,

main demand's and supply's barriers in the SME's activity,

barriers and stimulators in the creation of innovation in SME's,

adaptation of SME's to international norms and standards quality and ecological).

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