The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe

Causes, Consequences and Strategies in Post-Communist Countries

Buch | Hardcover

322 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-181-4 (ISBN)

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Since the 1990s, the economic development of Central and Eastern Europe has maintained high economic growth rates, seemingly leading to an era of prosperity. This very positive vision of future economic success, linked to current political backlash and a long history of economic adversity, is a thin veil of the economic “way west” for so-called transition countries. The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe examines the reality of the diminishing marginal utility of further international investments alongside the pitfalls of higher government spending to cultivate innovation which ultimately makes foreign capital less attractive. In this volume authors from diverse disciplinary perspectives reflect on current debates surrounding the developmental bottlenecks in East-Central Europe. Their common goal is to analyze the manner of socio-economic transformation, question of the relevance and impact of the “middle-income trap” and identify possible ways to escape it.

Yaman Kouli was a visiting scientist in 2018 and 2019 at the UMR Sirice 8138 in Paris, funded via a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. From October 2019 on, he has worked as a research assistant at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. His fields of expertise are Poland’s economic history during the 20th century, the knowledge-based economy and European economic integration before 1914.

Introduction: Transformation of the Transformation? The Middle Income Trap and the Search for a New Development Strategy in the Post-Communist States of Central and Eastern Europe

Yaman Kouli and Uwe Müller

Part I: Historical Legacies

Chapter 1. Poland’s Communist Heritage and Its Impact on Post-1990 Economic Development

Yaman Kouli

Chapter 2. Institutional Development and Growth as Outputs of Early Transition Policies

Tal Kadayer

Part II: Development Strategies on the Economic, Entrepreneurial and Individual Level

Chapter 3. The Middle-Income Trap and Its Narrow Escape Hatches: Dependent Development and FDI-Led Growth in Romania

Cornel Ban and Zoltán Mihály

Chapter 4. Between Domestic Entrepreneurship and Global Technology Chains: Upgrading Paths of Two Large IT Firms from Poland

Grzegorz Lechowski

Chapter 5. The Value of Return Migration - The Case of Bulgaria

Birgit Glorius

Part III: The Impact of European Integration

Chapter 6. The Winners and Losers of Economic Openness: Eastern Europe’s Growth Path Post-1989

Kiril Kosse

Chapter 7. Developmentalist Illusion? EU Cohesion Policy, Dependent Development, and the State in East Central Europe

Daniel Šitera

Chapter 8. East-Central Europe: The Eternal Periphery of the EU?

Christian Schweiger

Chapter 9. Cohesion Policy for Escaping Middle-Income Trap

Andrea Filippetti and Raffaele Spallone

Conclusion: Conclusion and Outlook

Uwe Müller

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-80539-181-X / 180539181X
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-181-4 / 9781805391814
Zustand	Neuware