The ongoing crisis should spur deeper European integration, rather than a return to the nationalism of the past. The World Development Report 2009, reshaping economic geography, spotlights several issues for new European Union (EU) member states. From 1950 to 1990, Eastern Europe was impermeable to the flow of goods, services and ideas from the West, and grew slowly. During the same period, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in fourteen Western...
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Reshaping economic geography : implications for new EU member states
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Gill,Indermit S.; Goh,Chorching; Roberts,Mark.
Reshaping economic geography : implications for new EU member states (Russian). Europe and Central Asia knowledge brief ; volume no. 4 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/520501468249885673