Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/995 
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Year of Publication: 
1998
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1998
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 851
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
In the process of the German unification and especially after the formal unification in October 1990, Eastern Germany was supported by West Germany by a lot of measures. The main purposes were to improve the infrastructure, to stimulate private investment and to alleviate the adjustment process for the population by transfers to private households. The paper describes the measures in some detail. Many of these were decided upon in an ad hoc manner, in some cases experience (partly from the period of reconstruction in West Germany after World War II) was available. The methods of financing are described, too. Emphasis is laid on the policy in the field of social insurance. Finally, it is tried to draw some conclusions which might be helpful in case of a unification of South and North Korea.
Subjects: 
intergovernmental relations
debt
social security
JEL: 
H59
H79
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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