Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128215 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CASE Network Studies & Analyses No. 411
Publisher: 
Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw
Abstract: 
Emerging market economies were major beneficiaries of the economic boom before 2007. More recently, they have become victims of the global financial crisis. Their future development depends, to a large extent, on global economic prospects. Today the global economy and the European economy are much more integrated and interdependent than they were ten or twenty years ago. Every country must recognize its limited economic sovereignty and must be prepared to deal with the consequences of global acroeconomic fluctuations. The statistical data for 2009 provides a mixed picture with respect to the impact of the crisis on various groups of countries and individual economies. On average, Central and Eastern Europe experienced a smaller output decline than the Euro area and the entire EU while the CIS, especially its European part, contracted more dramatically. However, there was a deep differentiation within each country group. Looking globally, richer countries, which are more open to trade and in which the banking sector plays a larger role and which rely more on external financing, suffered more than less sophisticated economies, which are less dependent on trade and credit (especially from external sources). With some exceptions, the previous good growth performance helped rather than handicapped countries in the CEE and CIS regions in the crisis year of 2009. The post-crisis recovery has been rather modest and incomplete. It remains vulnerable to new shocks (like the Greek Fiscal crisis), the danger of sovereign default and other uncertainties. Full post-crisis recovery and increasing potential growth will require far going economic and institutional reforms on both national, regional (e.g., EU) and global levels.
Subjects: 
global financial crisis
emerging-market economies
European Union
Economic and Monetary Union
Central and Eastern Europe
Commonwealth of Independent States
sovereign debt crisis
global policy coordination
JEL: 
E44
E63
F32
F36
F42
G15
H63
ISBN: 
978-83-7178-521-4
Document Type: 
Research Report

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