Description

• Title:
  Regional development in Central and Eastern Europe: the role of inherited structures, external forces and local initiatives
• Creator:
  PAUL, Leo
• Contributor:
  Utrecht University, Faculty of Geographical Sciences;
  esrap-me@geo.uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  This paper tries to explain regional development in Eastern and Central Europe. A simple West European bias can lead to false interpretations of current spatial processes. The spatial structuring forces in the communist period created a divergent mosaic of regions with different prospects for future development. This differentiated 'spatial outcome' of communism should be taken as point of departure for the new, post-communist era. The interrelativeness of econornical, legal and political reforms after the break-down of communism should be kept in mind. Seven influence groups, on different levels of scale, should be distinguished to understand regional development: the political context, international organisations, macroeconomic reforms, foreign investors, local initiatives, regional policy and geographical location. Together with the inhcrited structures, this leads to a spatial differentiation which is different from the one prevailing in the communisl era.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2025.07.17;
  2025.03.21
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  European Spatial Research and Policy;2;
  2
• Subject:
  regional development;
  econornic transition;
  Eastern/Central Europe
• Identifier:
  1231-1952;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/56017 ;
  1896-1525;
  10.18778/1231-1952.2.2.02
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image