Sunday, January 18, 2009

A rise in death rates in many Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union occurred as a result of the transition from a planned economy



This article points to research that highlights that death rates rose in many of the former communist countries as they moved from a planned economy to a capitalist one. It goes to show that economic policy decisions have consequences. The demographic crisis in many former Soviet republics has been worsened by a system that has led to far more people dying at a relatively young age than was the case in the 1970s and 1980s.

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