by Andreas Hoffmann
Intellectual Takeout’s Luis Pablo has published a nice piece on Estonia’s astonishing development. You can find it here. He attributes this development to Estonia’s “market-oriented reforms” during the 1990s. Importantly, Estonia has sticked with the “market-oriented” approach. I suggest that this persistence might help explain why the country has fared better than most other countries following liberalization.
by Andreas Hoffmann*
The new member states of the EU were hit hard by the current crisis. Especially the former Baltic tigers (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) have seen a tremendous decline in GDP. While our economies face difficulties to cope with a decline of about five percent of the GDP, they lost 10 to 15 percent. In my opinion, Estonia is the most interesting of the three as it chose a distinct way to deal with the crisis. Continue reading
