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to the top of the middle range, otherwise there is a grave danger that the lower
relative performance that can be achieved by a lower position in the hierarchy
rates the country lower and lower. The main risk of this is not a lower position
but the narrowing of future perspectives. The situation drawn by the survey about
the countries shows a basic similarity to the world wide position which is called
latent state of development by literature (Kozma, 2004): ready to catch up,
rich and efficient human assets, which operate with a limited performance
under relatively weaker financial and technical conditions but have future
potential. The current situation can be described with the specialist terminology
of “underperforming latent development”.
It is valid for all countries that the Post-Lisbon Strategy can only offer a balanced
development in a complex approach to sustainability, by way of strengthening
the elements of social and environmental sustainability, thus increasing the
utilisation of human assets, thus creating the foundations of an innovative and
better performing economic development.
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