The EU Enlargement Process and Social Convergence: A Working Paper on Globalization and Growing Inequality in the Old and the New Europe

Studien Von Zeitfragen, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 1-185, 2004

186 Pages Posted: 1 Apr 2007

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Arno Tausch

University of the Free State, Department of Political Studies and Governance; University of Innsbruck - Department of Political Science

Abstract

The publication surveys the major existing evidence from EUROSTAT and UN/World Bank sources and comes to the depressing conclusion that there is practically no real convergence of social conditions in Europe over the last years. Instead, the gaps between East and West, and between South and North tend to be permanent. A large number of poverty indicators is analysed. The analysis bodes ill for the aims of the Union to become, by 2010, the world's leading market. The analysis is especially pessimistic for the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria and Romania. The publication surveys also the latest evidence on Roma poverty and Roma discrimination in the region.

Note: Paper is in German.

Keywords: Integration

JEL Classification: F 15

Suggested Citation

Tausch, Arno, The EU Enlargement Process and Social Convergence: A Working Paper on Globalization and Growing Inequality in the Old and the New Europe. Studien Von Zeitfragen, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 1-185, 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=977174

Arno Tausch (Contact Author)

University of the Free State, Department of Political Studies and Governance ( email )

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University of Innsbruck - Department of Political Science ( email )

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Innsbruck, Tirol 6020
Austria

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