Analysis of Development Indicators in Balkan Countries

Since the collapse of socialism, Balkan countries have been changing as social, economic and politic structure. Some former socialist countries (Bulgaria, Slovenia and Romania) and Greece became full member of EU. Some Balkan countries (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia) lived difficult war years. After the wars, they have started to struggle for economic, social and political reconstruction process. Each country in Balkan Peninsula wants bigger real per capita income, better welfare level, and generally become a developed country. But these countries have some political, economic and social problems in development process. The aim of this paper is to analysis Balkan countries in terms of development indicators such as education, population, national income and income distribution in 2000s. Moreover, new suggestions will be offered to accelerate development process at the end of paper