The Analysis of Sustainability Development of Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the Post Socialist Period

The Analysis of Sustainability Development of Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the Post Socialist Period

Fatih , Çelebioğlu

Since the collapse of socialism, Eastern Europe and South Eastern (Balkans) Europe countries have been expeditiously changing as social, economic and politic structure. Some former socialist countries (as Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania) and Greece became full member of European Union. Some Balkan countries (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia) lived difficult war years. After the wars, they have started to struggle for economic, social and political reconstruction process. Some CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries (as Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus) tried to adapt market economics. Each country in this region wants bigger real per capita income, better welfare level, and generally become a developed country. But these countries have some political, economic and social problems in development and sustainability process. The aim of this paper is to analysis the countries in terms of development indicators such as per capita GDP growth rates, Human Development Index values and Sustainable Human Development Index values in the period of 2000-2010. It will be used the tools of spatial statistics (ESDA -Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis). Keywords: Sustainable Development, per capita GDP growth, Human Development Index, Sustainable Human Development Index, ESDA (Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis)

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2012-05-31

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