UNDP’s experience in Georgia shows that the transition from humanitarian response to development programming in conflict-affected areas requires a wide spectrum of activities ranging from support to local governments to setting...
Starting in 1993, the European Union has elaborated conditionality for new members, in response to the desire of the post-communist countries to join. Now conditionality has to prove its power in Turkey and the Balkans.
All the new member states qualify for EU funds intended to help them ‘catch up’ to their wealthier neighbours. The problems of absorbing these funds reflect the absence of effective national policy frameworks and...
The prospects for absorbing EU financial assistance for the SME sector depend more on the capacity of the Turkish authorities to identify and address the needs of SMEs, and less on the amount of financial assistance...
While EU accession will help to consolidate Serbia’s transition to a market democracy, the human development lens can help devise policies to promote social solidarity and prevent vulnerable groups from being left...
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) evolved out of the final stage of the EU’s eastward enlargement, which required the EU to better define its relationship with the new eastern neighbours – the...
