[lbo-talk] How the former Soviet republics have fared on their own

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 12 17:20:25 PST 2014


On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote:


> The World Bank's per capita GDP data in current US dollars is here:
> http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD
> <http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?page=>
>
> The data says, almost all the post-Soviet or Eastern bloc nations grew
> faster than the US between 1990 and 2013, including Ukraine. (Note the data
> set starts in 1993 for Estonia, 1994 for Bosnia and 1997 for Serbia). Only
> Serbia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Rep grew slightly more slowly, but they still
> grew significantly. Full list below.

Someone who knows this stuff - and the World Bank, where he worked for 20 years - really well, Branko Milanovic, disagrees:

http://glineq.blogspot.com



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