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The economic legacy of German unification

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posted on 2014-08-08, 10:27 authored by Jeremy Leaman
The purpose of this module is to introduce you to the economic problems associated with German unification and to the broader issues relating to Germany in Europe. With some 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the largest state in the new Europe. It is geographically central and has borders with nine other countries. It is the core economy of the region, of the European Union and of the newly formed Eurozone; it represents 38 percent of total demand within the EU, it is the major trading partner of every other member of the EU and far and away the biggest trading partner of the emerging states of central and Eastern Europe. What happens to the German economy affects every other economy in Europe, directly or indirectly. The current weaknesses of the Eurozone are in no small measure a result of the particular feebleness of Germany’s recent record of growth. One of the major factors contributing to this poor pattern of growth is the economic burden taken on by the Federal Republic in uniting the economies of East and West Germany. It is therefore important to examine Germany’s economic development over the first dozen or so years of unity to gauge both the domestic and international effects of unification.

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School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Politics and International Studies

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WELL German Area Studies Series

Citation

LEAMAN, J., 2003. The economic legacy of German unification [online]. (Web-Enhanced Language Learning project paper). Bristol: JISC. URL: http://www.well.ac.uk/cgol/economiclegacy/intro.asp#back.

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© [JISC]

Version

  • SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)

Publication date

2003

Language

  • en

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