Catching Up And Falling Behind: Four Puzzles After Two Decades Of Post-Communist Transformation

Norkus, Zenonas

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“…One of the main objectives of the post-socialist countries joining the European Union in 2004 has been to catch up to the average of the existing member states (Artelaris et al 2010;Farkas 2016;Gorzelak et al 2010;Lux, Horvath 2017;Molendowski 2017;Norkus 2015). The economic catching up processes of less developed countries and regions can be assessed in various ways, and it is most common to measure it with GDP per capita, e.g., in the practice of the European Union.…”

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The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries

Lengyel

Kotosz

2018

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The majority of Central and Eastern European post‑socialist countries acceded to the European Union in 2004. The integration of these economies to the Union had begun earlier, which was strengthened by grants from the Structural Funds after the accession. One of their aims is to facilitate the catching up processes of less developed regions and their convergence to the average of older member states. In our study1, we examine the success of the catching up processes of the NUTS3 regions in the four Visegrad Group countries (V4), i.e., the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, between 2000 and 2014 to the average of the 15 initial member states of the European Union. Is there a process of catching up in each region, and if so, is it at a similar or a highly different rate? We analyze the development of GDP per capita at Purchasing Power Parity, and we examine disparities in the level of catching up using entropy‑based Theil indexes. We provide a detailed analysis of two of the influencing factors of the catching up process of regions. Firstly, we look at whether the catching up process of the regions took place in a similar or very different way compared to the national average. Secondly, we examine how the size of the biggest city of the regions affected catching up, and whether the role of the biggest city of region can be shown.

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The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries

Lengyel

Kotosz

2018

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30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-communism in Europe and Asia

Kazakevitch

Akimov

2020

Palgrave Studies in Economic History

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A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Patterns in the Acceleration and the Catching Up Performance of the Former Soviet Union Republics

Norkus

2017

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Mikhail Gorbachev's reform promised to accelerate the growth of the Soviet economy, leading it out of the trap of stagnation. Boris Yeltsin's circle of reformers also believed that shedding the status of empire would encourage Russia's process of "catching up." Nationalists from Soviet republics believed that the independence of their homelands would prompt similar economic effects. Did these hopes and promises materialize? Two measures are used to assess the economic effects of the dissolution of the USSR.(1) Acceleration performance: did the GDP per capita of the former Soviet (fSU) republics grow more rapidly during post-communist independence than in the late Soviet "stagnation era"? (2) Catching up performance: did fSU republics decrease the GDP per capita gap, separating them from the U.S. (fulfilling the promise to catch up and overtake U.S. which legitimated Communist rule in the USSR since 1961)? After dividing the fSU republics into two subsets ("success" and "failure" cases), multi-value qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is applied to explore the explanatory power of differences in the models of post-communist capitalism, involvement in wars, and natural resource endowments.Keywords dissolution of the USSR -acceleration performance -catching-up performancevarieties of post-communist capitalism -qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)

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Catching Up And Falling Behind: Four Puzzles After Two Decades Of Post-Communist Transformation

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries

The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries

30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-communism in Europe and Asia

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Patterns in the Acceleration and the Catching Up Performance of the Former Soviet Union Republics

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