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Titelgeschichte zur Gründung der Yemen Republic am 22. Mai 1990: Nach einem kurzen Abriß der Geschichte des Nord- und des Südjemen wird der Einigungsprozeß seit Mai l988 (Gipfeltreffen der beiden Staatsführer) beschrieben und die politische Gestalt der Republik Jemen dargestellt. Eingegangen wird auch auf die wichtigsten Probleme eines vereinigten Jemen, auf die Haltung der arabischen Länder (speziell Saudi-Arabien) und auf die wirtschaftliche Lage der beiden Landesteile unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Energie- und Elektrizitätswirtschaft. (DÜI-Sdt)

This paper discusses comparison of economic and social indicators in the year 1988 between Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and German Democratic Republic (GDR). The budgetary costs of unification will be substantially larger than initially envisaged. Moreover, if one adds to the budget the increases in government debt related to equalization paper, a portion of the old enterprise debt on the books of the banks. The Trust Fund has been assigned a task or enormous scope and complexity: the privatization, restructuring, and in some cases, liquidation of 8000 enterprises with 4 million employees. Even taking care of the short-run financial problems of these enterprises has proved daunting; the more fundamental task will be near impossible to achieve with any rapidity. It is clearly essential to the success of economic integration that capital allow east rather than labor flowing west and that income growth and new opportunities arc enough to meet reasonable aspirations on the pan of the residents of East Germany

When German unification took place in 1990, the government was optimistic that the process of closing the economic gap between the two Germanies would be a brief one. However, economic unification has turned out to be more costly and much more complex than anticipated. But on the other hand it is equally true that some problems have been tackled with remarkable success, especially privatization. For the reforming of eastern Europe there are several interesting aspects in these developments.