Author: Robert Burgess
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Keywords: accession, eve, competitiveness, baltics
Number of Pages: 69
Published: 2004-05
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1589063260
ISBN-13: 9781589063266

This paper assesses the competitive position of the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, in the light of their accession to the EU, focusing on the viability of maintaining fixed exchange rates upon joining the EU, participating in its exchange rate mechanism and adopting the euro currency. Issues discussed include: effective exchange rate indicators and export performance; productivity developments; equilibrium real exchange rates; and policy implications.

Author: Violeta Kelertas
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: moral, imagination, baltics, freedom, identity, postcolonialism, boundary, worlds, baltic
Number of Pages: 471
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $118.00
ISBN-10: 904201959X
ISBN-13: 9789042019591

Emerging from the ruins of the former Soviet Union, the literature of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is analyzed from the fruitful perspective of postcolonialism, a theoretical approach whose application to former second-world countries is in its initial stages. This groundbreaking volume brings scholars working in the West together with those who were previously muffled behind the Iron Curtain. They gauge the impact of colonization on the culture of the Baltic states and demonstrate the relevance of concepts first elaborated by a wide range of critics from Frantz Fanon to

Author: Jean-Jacques Subrenat
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: identity, freedom, moral, baltics, worlds, imagination, boundary, independence, translated, english, estonia
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-04
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 9042008903
ISBN-13: 9789042008908

In the span of only seventy years, Estonia first proclaimed its independence, was occupied and deprived of its sovereignty, saw many of its citizens deported, and yet managed to recover its independence. How did this small nation keep its language and traditions alive during half a century of occupation, and how did it maintain such a vivid sense of identity? For the first time in English, this book gives a comprehensive view of the events which shaped the destiny of contemporary Estonia. The Editor, Jean-Jacques Subrenat, has called upon an unusually broad spectrum of the best experts (in his

Authors:Barry H. Potter, Jack Diamond,
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Keywords: occasional, assistance, technical, paper, international, fund, monetary, imf, assessment, russia, baltics, treasuries, countries, former, union, soviet, setting
Number of Pages: 42
Published: 2000-10
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1557759472
ISBN-13: 9781557759474

Summarizing the results of an internal evaluation of IMF-sourced technical assistance, Setting Up Treasuries in the Baltics, Russia, and Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union assesses the costs of the inputs, outputs, and efficiency with which technical assistance was delivered, and the effectiveness of the IMF’s technical assistance program in building treasuries. The study also considers the factors that influence the relative efficiency, effectiveness, and impact of the technical assistance program in each of the countries. The paper concludes that the basic goal of building treasur

Author: Giedrius Subacius
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: upton, freedom, jungle, sinclair, amp, moral, imagination, baltics, worlds, lithuanian, centenary, boundary, identity
Number of Pages: 113
Published: 2006-03-31
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 9042018798
ISBN-13: 9789042018792

In his legendary novel The Jungle (1905 and 1906), Upton Sinclair included a conspicuous number of Lithuanian words, phrases and surnames. This volume is the first attempt to analyze aspects of Lithuanian linguistic and historical data from The Jungle. Sinclair discovered the Lithuanian language in Chicago and explored it with pleasure. He even confessed to having sang in Lithuanian. If you look for "a Lithuanian linguist" working in field-research conditions in Chicago’s Back of the Yards—there is Upton Sinclair! The book targets Sinclair’s motives for choosing Lithuanian characters