The Economic Lag of Central and Eastern Europe: Income Estimates for the Habsburg Successor States, 1870–1910

David F. Good

The Journal of Economic History, 1994, vol. 54, issue 4, 869-891

Abstract: The lack of nineteenth-century national income figures for the small states of present-day Central and Eastern Europe hampers studies of long-term economic development in the region. This article fills the gap by using a proxy approach to estimate GDP per capita on the territories of the Habsburg successor states for the period 1870 to 1910. The results give added support for more optimistic interpretations of the region's performance under Habsburg rule. More importantly, they can be linked to national income figures for later years and used directly in comparisons of international income levels between 1870 and 1987.

Date: 1994
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