Dobrescu P. (ed.) Development in Turbulent Times: The Many Faces of Inequality Within Europe

Springer, 2019. — 199 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-11360-5.Развитие в неспокойные времена
This open access book explores the most recent trends in the EU in terms of development, progress, and performance. Ten years after the 2008 economic crisis, and amidst a digital revolution that is intensifying the development race, the European Union, and especially Central and Eastern Europe, are ardently searching for their development priorities. Against this background, by relying on a cross-national perspective, the authors reflect upon the developmental challenges of the moment, such as sustainable development, reducing inequality, ensuring social cohesion, and driving the digital revolution. They particularly focus on the relation between the less-developed Eastern part of the EU and its more developed Western counterpart, and discuss the consequences of this development gap in detail. Lastly, the book presents a range of case studies from different areas of governance, such as economy and commerce, health services, education, migration and public opinion in order to investigate the trends most likely to impact the European Union's medium and long-term development.Part I Envisaging Development in the Contemporary Society: Theory and Public Debates
Introduction
Why Do Some Countries Develop and Others Not?
Measuring the Hard-to-Measure in Development: Dimensions, Measurement Challenges, and Responses
Get It Right This Time? Leaving the Periphery of the European Economic Development
“Nous Choisissons L’Europe”: EU’s Economic Development and Current Challenges
European Imbalances: The Sound and the Fury
Unable to Stop Inequality from Rising: Evidence from Romania
Part II Challenges and Opportunities for Development in the Post-Crisis Period
The East-West Divide in the European Union: A Development Divide Reframed as a Political One
New Frontiers in Sovereign Wealth Fund Capitalization
The Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on FDI Attractiveness: Romania, Slovakia and Greece in Comparison
Health Care and Migration: What Data Can Tell Us of the Hard-to-Measure Impact of Migrants on the European Health Systems
The Multiple Impact of Education Gaps in Romania
Europeanization in the Making: Perceptions of the Economic Effects of European Integration in Romania
Correction to: Health Care and Migration: What Data Can Tell Us of the Hard-to-Measure Impact of Migrants on the European Health Systems