Twenty Years after the Fall of the Wall » Kurt Huebner http://www.germanstudies.ca/berlinwall The Legacy of Germany’s East-West Divide Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:35:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Kurt Huebner – Economic Unification after the Fall of the Wall: Is the bottle half full or half empty? http://www.germanstudies.ca/berlinwall/economic-unification-after-the-fall-of-the-wall-is-the-bottle-half-full-or-half-empty.php http://www.germanstudies.ca/berlinwall/economic-unification-after-the-fall-of-the-wall-is-the-bottle-half-full-or-half-empty.php#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:40:00 +0000 admin http://www.germanstudies.ca/berlinwall/?p=9 Kurt Huebner, Director of the Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia

Economic Unification after the Fall of the Wall: Is the bottle half full or half empty?: Twenty years after the Fall of the Wall the bottle can be seen as one third empty or two thirds full. Kurt Huebner argues that early wrong decisions locked-in the Neue Laender into a slow growth path of economic development and that it may need another generation to make the promised catch-up happen.

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