Previous Fora / 2003
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Professor András Inotai |
| Director Institute of World Economics Hungary |
Dr. András Inotai began teaching at San Marcos University in Lima, Peru in 1972, and after a brief return to Hungary, he was working in the World Bank's Trade Policy Division in Washington D.C. from 1989 until 1991. He became doctor of economical sciences in 1991.
Since July 1991 he has been the general director of the Institute for World Economics in Budapest. The Institute for World Economics (IWE, established in 1973) carries out research and formulates objective policy recommendations as part of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Its main research tasks are to study the trends and factors underlying global and regional economic developments, and to examine their present and future impact on the Hungarian economy. Additionally, it is committed to contributing to international research by cooperating with leading research institutes throughout the world.
From 1996 until 1998, Dr. András Inotai was chairman of the strategic team responsible for the integration of Hungary into the European Union. He is visiting professor of Columbia University in New York City.
His main research activities are focused on East-West economic relations, Integration of Central and Eastern Europe into the EU, and structural change in the global economy. He states: "Sustainability, in political, economic, and social terms, has been considered almost from the very beginning to be the highest priority of the transformation process in all the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). Its importance is underlined by the fact that experts divide the process into two stages: macroeconomic stabilization and achievement of a sustainable growth path. As experience shows, by no means all countries that have achieved macroeconomic stability were able to embark on sustainable growth as well, because that stability proved to be provisional, for lack of microeconomic and microsocial foundations. One of the key lessons of more than a decade of transformation is that, at least in the early years, macroeconomic statistics did not have the same meaning as those reported by highly developed, mature, industrialized economies. (from: Sustainability of the Transformation Process in Central and Eastern Europe)
Selected publications
Földes György and Inotai András, eds: A globalizáció
kihívásai és Magyarország (The challenges of globalization and Hungary).
Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó, 2001;
Resources on the Web
Institute for World Economics
http://www.vki.hu/eindex.shtml
Inotai's home page with a list of publications
http://www.vki.hu/einotai_andras.shtml
Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (DSE),
Dynamic Development in a Sustainable World - Speeches and Issues Notes: Sustainability of
the Transformation Process in Central and Eastern Europe (by András Inotai):
http://www.dse.de/ef/web02/inotai.htm
Benefits and Costs of EU Enlargement for present members,
firstround candidates and other associated countries (by András Inotai):
http://www.worldbank.org/research/abcde/eu_99/eu/inotai.pdf