What will joining the EU mean for the new eastern member states and their economies? This text offers a detailed study of the macroeconomic and structural adjustment burden. It envisages a real currency appreciation stemming from price convergence, capital inflows and weak structural change. The widespread belief that an Eastern enlargement of the Union would be overwhelmingly to the detriment of the present EU (budgetary costs, locational decisions, trade deficits) is rejected. The authors discuss the lack of competitiveness of Eastern countries and their need for structural adjustments (in the financial sector, in agriculture, and in manufacturing) in order for them to survive and thrive in their new economic environment.

The contributors to this volume discuss the lack of competitiveness of Eastern countries and their need for structural adjustment. The main issues considered are the problem of price convergence in integrated markets, the positive approach to foreign capital inflows, the problem of the current account deficit and the direction of strucural change. The book consists of a wide range of theoretical approaches--from supply-side to more demand-side orientations.

By introducing a new national currency in November 1993, the Republic of Kazakstan took a decisive step towards establishing its political and economic independence. In the following years, Kazakstan made great efforts to lay the institutional foundation for econonmic policy in line with a free market system. The cooperation between Kazak experts and independent international advisors such as the group of German econonmists under the leadership of Lutz Hoffmann played an important role for the Kazak government in choosing the most effective concepts and instruments for economic policy. Thus, the main topic of this book is the discussion of the macroeconomic problems during the first years of transition and the role of international financial institutions, in particular the International Monetary Fund.
The topics are dealt with in a new form of presentation, collecting the papers of the advisory group in chronological order.

Die Praktischen AErzte und die Allgemeinarzte stellen die weitaus groesste arztliche Berufsgruppe. Ihre Tatigkeit unterscheidet sich in vielem von der des Arztes im Krankenhaus. Die besonderen Auf gaben und Probleme in der Allgemeinpraxis sind in den Banden "Die Allgemeinpraxis" und "Hausarztliche Versorgung" von 21 Kollegen, groesstenteils Praktischen AErzten, beschrieben worden. Bislang fehlte sowohl im deutschen als auch im englischen Schrift tum eine zusammenfassende Darstellung der Tatigkeit des All gemeinarztes. Die "Taschenbucher Allgemeinmedizin" wenden sich vor allem an die jungen Kollegen, die die Absicht haben, Allgemeinarzte zu werden. Die alteren Kollegen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die im Rahmen der Pflichtfamulatur einen Famulus betreuen, koennen die Bande als Lehrhilfe benutzen. Ich danke allen Kollegen, welche uns durch ihre Beitrage unter stutzten, und dem Springer-Verlag fur die ubersichtliche Gestal tung der Texte. Munchen, Sommer 1974 Paul Brandlmeier V Inhalt Vorwort .... V Zeichenerklarung XIV V erzeichBis der Mitarbeiter XV Helmut Pi/lau Hausbesuche, Probleme und Statistik 1 Der Hausbesuch als Informationsquelle . 1 Haufigkeit der Hausbesuche . . . 2 Der Zeitaufwand pro Hausbesuch 2 Umfang der Hausbesuchstatigkeit 3 Helmut Pillau 5 Hausbesuche in der Grossstadt 5 Vorbereitung .