Regional Inequalities in Social Wellbeing in Central and Eastern Europe

Zaniewski, Kazimierz J.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1992.tb00614.x

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“…The empirical evidence on the process of planned industrialization in peripheral areas in ECE suggests that partial regional convergence was achieved at both national and subnational scales. Significant regional differences persisted, however, and the process of industrialization created a form of structurally unsustainable regional dependency upon large, integrated production plants ( see Smith 1998;Koropeckyj 1972;Zaniewski 1992). In addition, due to structural rigidities in the state socialist development model, the early gains of ECE in catching up with Western economies were lost as divergence set in and productivity and output growth slowed (Dunford 1998;Smith 1998).…”

Section: Convergence Market Integration and Theories Of Spatial Devmentioning

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Catching up or Falling behind? Economic Performance and Regional Trajectories in the "New Europe"

Dunford¹,

Smith²

2000

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography.Abstract: This paper examines the trajectories of economic development of European national and regional economies in light of the pressures for greater integration and enlargement of the European Union. Using a variety of data sets, we demonstrate that there are significant variations in the speed and direction of change in per capita income and in productivity and employment rates across countries and a sample of European regions, and that falling behind (divergence) occurs as well as catching up (convergence). Making sense of spatial development therefore requires, we argue, that attention be paid to processes of differentiation and, in particular, to the falling behind experienced by less developed areas in East Central Europe and the forging ahead of the most developed, as well as to processes of catch-up. The paper also contributes to an assessment of the appropriateness of interpretations of growth and spatial development through countering the dominant discourse of convergence in neoclassical and neoliberal formulations and by suggesting that integration brings with it a number of important territorial "costs" associated with increasing inequality.Abstract: This paper examines the trajectories of economic development of European national and regional economies in light of the pressures for greater integration and enlargement of the European Union. Using a variety of data sets, we demonstrate that there are significant variations in the speed and direction of change in per capita income and in productivity and employment rates across countries and a sample of European regions, and that falling behind (divergence) occurs as well as catching up (convergence). Making sense of spatial development therefore requires, we argue, that attention be paid to processes of differentiation and, in particular, to the falling behind experienced by less developed areas in East Central Europe and the forging ahead of the most developed, as well as to processes of catch-up. The paper also contributes to an assessment of the appro- priateness of interpretations of growth and spatial development through countering the dominant discourse of convergence in neoclassical and neoliberal formulations and by suggesting that integration brings with it a number of important territorial "costs" associated with increasing inequality.Abstract: This paper examines the trajectories of economic development of European national and regional economies in light of the pressures for greater integration and enlargement of the European Union. Using a variety of data sets, we demonstrate that there are signifi...

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Section: Convergence Market Integration and Theories Of Spatial Devmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catching up or Falling behind? Economic Performance and Regional Trajectories in the "New Europe"

Dunford¹,

Smith²

2000

Economic Geography

106

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“…Regional inequalities within former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe may have been inherited from the past, but their struggle to eliminate them becomes particularly poignant for the ongoing expansion of the EU. During the transition period (1989 and onward), regional inequalities across and within the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been shown to be greater in economic development than in social wellbeing (Zaniewski, 1992). The observation of Zaniewski had been that changes in social wellbeing during the transition indicate convergence trends in most countries.…”

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“…Pointed out, however, was also the fact that the rate of change in indicators of social wellbeing has been closely associated with pre-existing conditions. The slowest progress in this convergence was reported in economically advanced areas of former communist Europe such as the present day Czech Republic (Zaniewski, 1992).…”

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“…This has been somewhat in contrast with more traditional calls, originating from both economic and sociological quarters of the country's academic establishment, for analytic gauges rather than policy statements (e.g., Machonin, 1994). Zaniewski (1992), in particular, had pointed out that East European regional inequalities are reflected in different rates of population growth, in uneven ethnic patterns and in varying degrees of subordination of social behavior to government policy.…”

Section: Czech Regional Disparity Before During and After The Collapmentioning

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Age-Specific Household Size as a Demographic Aspect of Regional Disparity: Czech Republic, 1991

Akkerman

2004

CSP

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The post-communist transition to market economy in Central Europe over the last decade of the twentieth century had a significant impact on the demographic profile of the former Soviet bloc countries. Largely due to government policy and market conditions related to housing, this observation is particularly true for the Czech Republic. The present study shows housing as a facet of regional demographic differences within the Czech Republic. The household composition matrix is applied here as a demographic gauge to the behavioral response of households to Czech housing markets and policy. The matrix provides here a glance at households’ demographic behavior in the capital city of Prague and in the country’s other regions, during the early transition period, based on observations from the 1991 census. A summary feature of household composition is the age-specific household size shown for the various regions of the Czech Republic to trace the reduced standard Gamma function. Anomalies detected in the trajectory of age-specific household size for Prague confirm the unique housing market conditions in the capital city, and point to a commensurate demographic response in Prague as opposed to the rest of the country.

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“…Scholars have debated whether socialist countries had reduced regional inequality and, more recently, whether regional inequality has widened since economic reforms. Although there is a lack of consensus, evidence has shown that regional inequality persisted in socialist countries (Fuchs and Demko, 1979;Clark, 1983;Schiffer, 1985;Liebowitz, 1987;Zaniewski, 1992). They suggest that the critical force affecting regional development is a political concern for efÞciency over regional equality.…”

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Regional inequality of industrial output in china, 1952 to 1990

Wei

1998

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This paper examines regional inequality of industrial output in China from 1952 to 1990. This study reveals that regional inequality was widespread when socialist China was established in 1949. It was reduced in the 1950s as a result of the efforts to develop the interior through the implementation of the First Five Year Plan (1953–57). After that, regional inequality persisted for one‐and‐a‐half decades due mainly to the poor economic returns of the defence‐oriented “Third Front” programme, decentralization, the reorientation of development policies, and the incidence of disruptive political events. Since the launch of economic reforms in 1978, interregional inequality among the eastern, central and western regions has gradually increased. However, interprovincial inequality decreased. The relative decline of the traditionally rich provinces (three municipalities and the northeastern industrial bases) has contributed to the decline of interprovincial inequality. Meanwhile, favourable state policy, local initiatives and foreign investment and trade have stimulated the growth of the coastal provinces of Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shandong, Zhejiang and Fujian, leading to more rapid coastal development and the increase of interregional inequality. The emerging new map of regional development is important to the understanding of regional inequality in post‐Mao China.

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Regional Inequalities in Social Wellbeing in Central and Eastern Europe

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Catching up or Falling behind? Economic Performance and Regional Trajectories in the "New Europe"

Catching up or Falling behind? Economic Performance and Regional Trajectories in the "New Europe"

Age-Specific Household Size as a Demographic Aspect of Regional Disparity: Czech Republic, 1991

Regional inequality of industrial output in china, 1952 to 1990

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