Debt and Deficit Growth Rate Reporting for Post-Communist European Union Member States

Explaining European Union engagement with potential new member states

The institutional transfer from the European Union member states to the former Soviet Union countries

1991 is a strategic year for former Soviet Union countries, representing the end of a system. A major historical change took place when Soviet Socialist Republics have decided to become independent states. But what happened to the institutions of these countries? Did they develop similar orientations of change or did they keep the previous models? Is it an exogenous induced change? Where did th...

Assessing the quality of corporate social responsibility reports: the case of reporting practices in selected European Union member states

The organization may communicate its engagement in sustainability and may presents results achieved in this field by creating and publishing corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. Today, we can observe a growing number of companies issuing such reports as a part of their annual reports or as stand-alone CSR reports. Despite the increase in the number of such reports their quality is dif...

Analyzing the effects of income inequality on public debt in OPEC member states by threshold panel

Abstract One of the major problems of developing governments, such as those of OPEC member states, is the government deficit and rising public debt. One of the reasons for this public debt is government policies faced with income inequalities. The opposite side said that the increased income inequality can lead to capital accumulation and thus increase production and tax payments and reduce go...

Political Culture and Child Poverty: An examination of Western and post-communist European states

This paper examines political culture in relation to child poverty outcomes in Western European and post-communist Central and Eastern European (CEE) states. Although the European Union represents advanced industrial economies and has committed itself to the eradication of child poverty, variation in welfare policies as well as child poverty outcomes exist across Europe. Research has shown that...