India, also has a East-Wesy divide, with West India doing much better exonomically than Eastern India. Sanjeev Sanyal has interesting observations in this regard, in case you are interested in reading.
I agree, this is definitely not unique to Germany! A particular region of a country being more developed than other is more common than not. China, for example, has a more developed coastline (due to trade, river deltas, etc). But, the case of Germany was particularly fascinating to me because Germany has been a developed country for more than 100 countries (ever since the German Unification in 1871). West Germany was always a very developed country, yet when they united with the East, they weren't able to get them up to pace (at least not yet).
I would definitely check out Sanjeev Sanyal's observations, it would be interesting to see!
Interesting observations Sifar.
This is not unique to Germany though.
India, also has a East-Wesy divide, with West India doing much better exonomically than Eastern India. Sanjeev Sanyal has interesting observations in this regard, in case you are interested in reading.
I agree, this is definitely not unique to Germany! A particular region of a country being more developed than other is more common than not. China, for example, has a more developed coastline (due to trade, river deltas, etc). But, the case of Germany was particularly fascinating to me because Germany has been a developed country for more than 100 countries (ever since the German Unification in 1871). West Germany was always a very developed country, yet when they united with the East, they weren't able to get them up to pace (at least not yet).
I would definitely check out Sanjeev Sanyal's observations, it would be interesting to see!