Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/54142 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/32
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
During the socialist era the communist regime attempted to reduce development differentials among states and social classes. In contrast, during the last 20 years, the economies in transition experienced considerable divergence in the economic, social, demographic and political areas. As a result, these countries can now be grouped into four structurally different clusters alternatively dependent on manufactured exports, high- and low-tech services, commodities exports, and migrant remittances. Between 2000 and 2007, the cluster with the fastest growth was not that which most reformed its economy and institutions, but that of commodity exporters where, however, life expectancy improved far less than in other clusters.
Subjects: 
structural transformation
divergence
performance
country clusters
JEL: 
P2
P21
P36
O4
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-267-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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