scholarly journals Post-Communist Health Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jalil Safaei
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Socioeconomic Restructuring ◽  
The Common ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
Health Transitions ◽  
Country Specific

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have gone through immense political and socioeconomic restructuring after the collapse of communism around 1990. Such transition has affected the lives of populations in these countries in many significant respects. A key aspect of life and wellbeing in any society is that of population health. This paper traces the transitions in population health—life expectancies and mortality rates for both males and females—in seven of the CEE countries during the two decades after the fall of communism. We estimate a series of panel data models to identify some of the common factors that would explain health transitions in these countries, while allowing for country-specific variability. Our findings indicate that the health transitions are strongly country specific. Moreover, income per capita and trade openness are statistically significant common contributors to health transitions.

scholarly journals Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe

2007 ◽  
pp. 204-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierluigi Montalbano ◽  
Alessandro Federici ◽  
Umberto Triulzi ◽  
Carlo Pietrobelli
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Trade Openness

scholarly journals Between Individual Memory and Social Memory. What Do People in Poland Remember About 1989?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aneta Ostaszewska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

30 years have passed since the events of 1989 that led to the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the paper the themes of social memory of political transformation in Poland in 1989 are discussed. The content of online statements collected from popular Polish news portals are analysed. When asking the question what events and experiences do Poles bring back when they think of 1989, I am interested in the relationship between the individual (biographical) memory and collective memory – the socially reconstructed knowledge of the past.

What Have We Learned from the Collapse of Communism?

2015 ◽  
pp. 642-677
Author(s):  
Olga Nicoara ◽  
Peter Boettke
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
Communist Countries

Following the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe (1989) and the Soviet Union (1991), the field of comparative political economy has undergone multiple stocktakings and revisions. In the former communist countries, Marxist economics was abandoned in favor of neoclassical economics, which dominated the profession in the West. But was neoclassical theory equipped to suggest adequate institutional arrangements in support of the transformations to capitalism in the former centrally planned economies of central and eastern Europe (C and EE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU)? What have economists working in the field of comparative political economy learned from the collapse of communism and the experience of transition so far? This chapter surveys the thoughts of leading transition scholars and assesses the new lessons learned in comparative transitional political economy.

UKRAINE IN WORK OF JOZEF LOBODOWSKI: RECEPTION OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN ХХ CENTURY

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-230
Author(s):  
Ivan Matkovskyy
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Great Famine ◽  
Internal Problem ◽  
The Common ◽  
Post War ◽  
Communist Past

In the article the author Ivan Matkovsky analizes the publicistic work of Jozef Lobodowski who was the dedicated supporter of the Polish-Ukrainian Association. He tries to show Lobodowski’s reception of the Ukrainian nationalist movement in the 30th and the attempts of Ukrainians in this regard. Against the background of the internal problem of the Polish state, called the “Ukrainian question”, the author watches the opinions of the conscious patriotic Polish intellectuals who under the slogan of “historical objectivity” made attempts to prevent the tragedy in the relations between two neighboring states. Using post-war publications the author makes an attempt to show the evolution of the national liberation struggle evaluation which can be used by scientists for studying the Polish-Ukrainian relations these days. The author shows the evolution of Jozef Lobodowski who was shocked the horrors of the 1932-1933 Holodomor (Great Famine). The publicist breaks with his Communist past and Russophile sentiments. Lobodowski tries to present in interwar Poland the tragedy of the Ukrainian intellectuals who came under the Soviet government occupation. There are several key directions Lobodowski was working on: the popularization of contemporary Ukrainian culture, the finding of an unknown Ukrainian historical and an analysis of the Ukrainian political environment. Therefore, we observe the efforts of Jozef Lobodowski to estimate the reasons of the conflict with the Ukrainian nationalists representatives. He offers his own vision for future of the Polish-Ukrainian cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe. It is important the author’s attempt to show the development of Jozef Lobodowski’s activities in the period of his emigration. Those days both Ukrainians and Polish emigrants were trying to analyze the common Polish-Ukrainian past in Galicia and Volyn and create new platforms for dialogue. And one of those platforms are the creations and views of Jozef Lobodowski

The duality of taxes and tradable permits: A survey with applications in Central and Eastern Europe

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
SCOTT FARROW
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Tradable Permits ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Financial Burdens ◽  
Country Specific

Economic instruments such as taxes and tradable permits have been promoted as efficiency improving policies in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere. The little noticed potential for a symmetric equity impact from the two instruments in a world without distortions is first discussed. A specific policy option is suggested in which existing environmental taxes in Central and Eastern Europe can be increased without imposing additional financial burdens in industry if appropriate tax credits are provided. Second, conditions in Central and Eastern Europe are identified that reduce the change of efficiency losses in a general equilibrium setting when distortions exist. The trade-off between efficiency and equity in such a setting is found to depend on country-specific parameters and to be reduced if: (1) a cost-effective policy is implemented, (2) environmental assets can be distributed prior to privatization, and (3) government expenditures can decline.

scholarly journals What do unions do in times of economic crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artjoms Ivlevs ◽  
Michail Veliziotis
Keyword(s):  
Beneficial Effect ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Common View ◽  
The Common ◽  
Using Data

Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline, and unions in the region are generally considered weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance of trade unions for individual workers in the post-socialist world. We explore the role that unions played in protecting their members from the negative effects of the global economic crisis. Using data for 21 post-socialist countries from the Life in Transition-2 survey, we find that union members were less likely than comparable non-members to lose their jobs during the crisis. This beneficial effect of union membership was particularly pronounced in countries which were hardest hit by the crisis. At the same time, union members were more likely to experience wage reductions, suggesting that unions were engaged in concession bargaining. Overall, our results challenge the common view that unions in the post-socialist countries are irrelevant.

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