Sam Vaknin is the author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" and "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East". He is a columnist in "Central Europe Review", United Press International (UPI) and ebookweb.org and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia. His web site: http://samvak.tripod.com
Bosnia - An Economy In Search Of A State Bosnia-Herzegovina (heretofore "Bosnia") is an artificial polity with four, tangentially interacting, economies. Serbs, Croats and their nominal allies, the Bosniaks each maintain their own economy. ...... Source : Starting a Franchise
Slovenia - The Star Pupil The most exciting event in Slovenia last week was when a group of young army recruits spat on the national flag and sang the anthem of the now defunct former Yugoslavia. They were sent to a military ...... Similar Editorial : Slovenia Property by Kelly Price. | Source : Starting a Franchise
The Second Coming In Albania Blessed with Chinese GDP growth rates (7-8% annually in each of the last 3 years) and German inflation (4%, down from 32% in 1997, mostly attributable to increases in energy and housing costs), it is...... Similar Editorial : Coming Soon by Evander Klum. | Source : Starting a Franchise
Monitoring Macedonia Close to 500,000 people - one in four - live under the poverty line in a country where the average monthly salary is less than 150 US dollars. More than one in three members of the workforce are chro...... Similar Editorial : Your Monitoring Options by Frank Fourchalk. | Source : Starting a Franchise
Hawala, Or The Bank That Never Was I. OVERVIEW In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the USA, attention was drawn to the age-old, secretive, and globe-spanning banking system developed in Asia and known as "Hawala" (t...... Source : Starting a Franchise
The Predicament Of The Newly Rich They are the object of thinly disguised envy. They are the raw materials of vulgar jokes and the targets of popular aggression. They are the Newly Rich. Perhaps they should be dealt with more appropr...... Similar Editorial : Get Rich by Roy Primm. | Source : Cash Management
Is My Money Safe? On The Soundness Of Our Banks Banks are institutions wherein miracles happen regularly. We rarely entrust our money to anyone but ourselves – and our banks. Despite a very chequered history of mismanagement, corruption, fals...... Similar Editorial : The Safe by Alien. | Source : Cash Management
Dividing The Loot It is when the going gets better, that the going gets tough. This enigmatic sentence bears explanation: when a firm is in dire straits, in the throes of a crisis, or is a loss maker – conflicts ...... Similar Editorial : Dividing Multifunctional Rooms by jraynal. | Source : Cash Management
