Постсоциалистическая трансформация стран ЦВЕ на рубеже веков: региональное развитие и экономическое неравенство

Экономика региона. 2016. Т. 12. № 3. С. 613–626.

Ichkitidze Y., Акаев А. А., Сарыгулов А. И., Соколов В. Н.

The evolution of the socio-economic systems is a non-linear process and  it contains of a periods with smooth changes and subsequent periods of sharp jump transformation. The overall frame of new intentions  opened at the stage of the birth of evolutionary processes, for their prediction requires analysis of the historical background and the risks which closely interfaced with a change in the society. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the newly independent states have been transformational, evolutionary stage in the development from the regional economy (which they actually were) to the economy of the state, the Central and Eastern European countries have experienced a dramatic "drift" to the European Union. This paper discusses the results of almost 25 years of the transformation of these countries. It has been shown that one of the important reasons for the modest economic performance in the post-Soviet space is that newly independent states ignores and does not use in the practice the principles of regional policy and regional modernization. Another important characteristic of this period is the increasing polarization in income levels between the various regions and such trend of growing economic inequality is dominant.

Keywords: средний класс, институциональные реформы, социальная дифференциация, кластеризация, региональное развитие, regional development, экономическое неравенство, institutional reforms, экономическая трансформация, clustering, economic transformation, economic inequality, middle class, integrated modernization, social differentiation, интегрированная модернизация