Print Email Facebook Twitter Measuring Central and Eastern Europe’s Socio-Economic Development Using Time Lags Title Measuring Central and Eastern Europe’s Socio-Economic Development Using Time Lags Author Paprotny, D. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2015-05-26 Abstract This paper applies the ‘time lag’ method to a set of social and economic indicators, examining the development of Central and Eastern Europe since the first world war. Originally used to assess technology diffusion, this method allows comparison of levels of development between states and through a long period of time. It presents how many years have elapsed between achieving a certain level of development between countries. The results show that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have only narrowly converged with a set of 23 highly-developed ‘benchmark’ states. Development in monetary terms (gross domestic product per capita) is the indicator where this region lags most. Employment structure, life expectancy or infant mortality show much smaller lags. Communist states were closest to the West in the 1960s–early 1970s and struggled thereafter. They are still mostly lagging more today than at their peak before transformation despite the progress achieved in absolute terms after the fall of centrally-planned economy. Subject time lagscommunist statessocial developmenthealth indicatorseconomic indicators To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:53117511-3b97-45ac-a415-f41d21589920 Publisher Springer ISSN 0303-8300 Source https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-0991-9 Source Social Indicators Research, 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s)This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Files PDF Paprotny_2015.pdf 1.28 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:53117511-3b97-45ac-a415-f41d21589920/datastream/OBJ/view