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The five most advanced countries of central Europe have, as a region, been growing faster than the European Union since 1994. While Poland is the only country in this group to have reached the 1989 level of gross domestic product (GDP) before 1998, Slovakia and Slovenia may have surpassed that level during 1998, and the Czech Republic and Hungary are not far behind. With accession to the European Union now possible sometime in the next decade, the important question is whether these countries can maintain this pace of economic growth.
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Knell, M., Hanzl, D. (1999). Technology and Industrial Restructuring in Central Europe. In: Dyker, D.A., Radosevic, S. (eds) Innovation and Structural Change in Post-Socialist Countries: A Quantitative Approach. NATO ASI Series, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4463-6_4
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