Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21861/hgg.2008.70.02.01
Changes in Levels of Economic Development among the States Formed in the Area of Former Yugoslavia
Zoran Stiperski
orcid.org/0000-0001-6329-5115
; Department of geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Jelena Lončar
orcid.org/0000-0003-2580-1931
; Geografski odsjek, PMF-a, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
After a long period, during the Yugoslav epoch, in which there were o changes in the levels
of economic development of the constitutive republics, major changes occurred following
the break-up of Yugoslavia. The western republics – today independent Slovenia and Croatia – rapidly advanced and notably diverged from the former eastern republics. The range of differences in development levels became surprisingly large in the area of the former shared state. At the same time, economic cooperation between countries in the ex-Yugoslav area decreased. Most recently there has been an increase in such cooperation, yet its extent is still much lower than before the break-up of Yugoslavia. The present differences in the levels of development between the western and the eastern states (independent countries) will presumably decrease in the future – however, for some time to come, for at least one or two decades, these differences will remain greater than they were during the period before 1990, i.e. when the Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia still existed.
Keywords
economic development; regional development; former Yugoslavia; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
37905
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Publication date:
17.12.2008.
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