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(Eastern Europe (The only region where the HDI has declined significantly…
Eastern Europe
The only region where the HDI has declined significantly since the United Nations created the index in 1990.
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Scarce funds were used to meet annual production targets rather than invest to long term improvements to productivity.
Orders sent from national government offices hundreds of kilometers away were often not implemented in factories.
Communists neglected consumer products such as automobiles,refrigerators,and clothing.
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Restructuring to market economies has proved painful in Russia and most of the other Eastern European countries once part of the Soviet Union .
Declining HDI's in the former Soviet Republics may be the result of lower production, higher death rates and other stress associated with the end of communism.
The dismantling of the Communist system led to the breakup of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union , and Yugoslavia.
Western Europe
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Since world war 2 Western Europe has become more unified politically,military,economically, and culturally.
To maintain high levels of development Western Europe has to import food,energy, and minerals.
The elimination of most economic barriers within the European Union makes Western Europe the worlds largest and richest market.
East Asia
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With wealth rising the worlds largest population has been transformed into the worlds largest market.
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Anglo-America
It is well endowed in minerals and natural resources that is really important to there manufacturing.
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Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs they are realitively successful to the global economy , the leading provider.
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Middle East
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Much of the Middle East is desert that can sustain only sparse consentration of plants and animal life.
Because of petroleum exports, the Middle East is the only one of the nine major world regions that enjoys a trade surplus.
Government officials in Middle Eastern states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have used billions of dollars generated from petroleum sales to finance economic development.
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Southeast Asia
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Very low economy, very poor.
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