Ostmitteleuropa im Umbruch

Spatial and Social Inequality in Communist Countries and in the First Period of the Transformation Process to a Market Economy

“…per capita income, west-east disparities). Transdanubia belonged to the winners of market economy, the North-eastern parts of Hungary to the losers (Nemes-Nagy 1994;Csefalvay, Fassmann and Rohn 1993;Csefalvay 1994Csefalvay , 1995aCsefalvay , 1995b. Csefalvay (1995b) has described three scenarios concerning the future development of spatial disparities in Hungary.…”

“…Ideological liability and faithfulness to the party lost their value as recruiting instruments of the elite in favor of skills, qualification, experience and competence. Furthermore, the fall of the "iron curtain", the introduction of the market economy, the aboli tion of central planning, and the restitution of political and financial autonomy to the cities and communes fundamentally altered the evaluation of space, place, city and region with respect to the location, functioning and re organization of productive activities (Csefalvay 1995a(Csefalvay , 1995bHamilton 1995: 69). Cities and regions no longer waited for the allocation of resources by the central administration, but competed with each other for national and for eign investment.…”