The Transition Report’s country assessments pages give an overview of the main macroeconomic and structural reform developments over the past year, as well as an outline of the key challenges facing each country. They serve as a compact overview of mostly factual information about countries in the region and provide a handy guide to some of the main issues of interest to investors, analysts and policy-makers.

For each country, the assessment starts with three key developments and challenges, highlighting the most significant events and taking a view on the top policy priorities. The next section covers macroeconomic performance and summarises the short-term outlook and the key risks. A short table of key macroeconomic indicators follows. More detailed data, both on selected economic indicators and on structural and institutional changes, are published on the EBRD web site.

The rest of the assessment is devoted to structural reform issues. A short paragraph gives a big picture overview of the state of transition, reflecting the effect of cumulative reforms introduced over the years. The assessment goes on to summarise the main structural reform developments since the middle of 2009, covering some or all of the main sectors – corporate, energy, infrastructure and finance. Lastly, the assessment outlines three structural reform priorities, reflecting the analysis of sectoral reforms and challenges outlined.

Link to the Report: http://www.wbc-inco.net/goto/104683.html