UNDP - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2010 & 2011 – ESTONIA. Baltic Way(s) of Human Development: Twenty Years On
UNDP - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2010 & 2011 – ESTONIA. Baltic Way(s) of Human Development: Twenty Years On

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Subject(s): National Economy, Economic policy, Welfare systems
Published by: UNDP United Nations Development Programme
Summary/Abstract: In this year’s Human Development Report, entitled “Baltic Way(s) of Human Development Twenty Years On”, distinguished social scientists from the three Baltic countries have analyzed our twenty-year journey. They have highlighted the similarities and parallels but, being serious scientists, have focused primarily on the areas in which the countries have searched for and found original paths. Their analyses provide a valuable and comparative overview of the changes that have occurred in the economic and political coordinate system since the collapse of the so-called Eastern Bloc. // The main objective of this report is not to rank countries, or once again give in to the human urge to prove to our¬selves, and everyone else, that despite all the hardships and naysayers, the three Baltic states have managed to leave behind the burden of the 50-year Soviet occupation and become developed European countries through persistent work and effort. Instead, we should look at the texts as discussions on whether our development model, our way of doing things, is the most effective and could, in the future, be set as an example for other countries and regions that currently, for various reasons, stand on the threshold of major change.

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