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... can be contacted at: miron.wolnicki@villanova.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Poland Transition management Jobs Unemployment Productivity rate For years economists stubbornly claimed that the economic growth is the pancea solution for unemployment. That is perhaps...

... dimension of economic analysis renders it prone to fundamental disagreements” (Argyrous and Stilwell, 1996, p. 51). Politics Economic policy Transition management © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 In addition to privatisation and the development of institutions there was a need...