Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45050 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2009/13
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper offers a broad overview of the Hungarian development strategy over the past two decades. Combining historical and functional analysis, some major strengths and weaknesses are identified, with special emphasis on the country's open-door policies and the role played by the European Union. The paper investigates why the impetus of institutional and financial integration was lost by about 2004 when policy drifting took over the role of strategies. Some ideas on how to remedy the situation are being offered. Paradoxically, the Hungarian success and failure both testify to the relevance of a neoinstitutionalist/political economy approach to sustainable development. It also examines the limitations of external anchoring by the EU as well as of the spontaneous bottom-up evolution of institutions when policy drifting continues.
Subjects: 
structural reform
sustainability
EU accession
regulation
FDI
trust
JEL: 
P21
P26
F15
F59
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-182-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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