State Machinery Building and Economic Transition: Lessons from the German Unification

IF 0.4 Q4 ECONOMICS
Yasushi Nakamura
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East Germany was deficient in the human resources to establish a new state machinery that was equal to that of West Germany. The solution was transferring knowledge and know-hows from West to East Germany through dispatching West German personnel, retraining and building informal personal networks. East Germany could establish the new state machinery quickly, although copying West Germany left little room to build a better state machinery, and the sudden change might undermine East German personnel’s efforts to increase their capacities. The German experience suggests that the other ex-socialist countries that could not expect a fast and extensive transfer of knowledge and know-how would need a long period measured by the unit of decade or generation to establish the new state machinery. Those countries needed a commonly understood goal of systemic transformation and public support for it over a long period. JEL: H10, N44, O15, P20, P37
国家机器建设与经济转型:德国统一的启示
东德缺乏人力资源来建立一个与西德相当的新国家机器。解决方案是通过派遣西德人员、再培训和建立非正式的个人网络,将知识和技能从西德转移到东德。东德可以迅速建立新的国家机器,尽管效仿西德几乎没有建立更好的国家机器的空间,而且这种突然的变化可能会破坏东德人员提高能力的努力。德国的经验表明,其他前社会主义国家无法指望知识和技能的快速和广泛转移,需要以十年或一代人为单位的长期时间来建立新的国家机器。这些国家需要一个普遍理解的系统转型目标,并在很长一段时间内得到公众的支持。JEL:H10、N44、O15、P20、P37
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