Development tendencies of regional disparities in the Slovak Republic

Abstract

Presented paper deals with the issues of regional development and regional disparities in Slovakia in the years 2001-2014. Levelling respectively increase of regional disparities was evaluated through a set of 13 socioeconomic indicators (gross birth rate, average monthly wage, monthly labour costs per employee, employment rate, unemployment rate, net monthly income and expenses per capita, completed dwellings, creation of GDP, labour productivity per employee in industry and construction, number of organizations focused on generating profit and number of freelancers) which were used in the territorial units at the level of self-governing regions of the Slovak Republic (NUTS III level). In terms of the evaluation and comparison of regional disparities were used the Gini coefficient and the coefficient of variation for mutual comparison and validation of divergent or convergent tendencies of regional disparities in Slovakia.

Regional inequalities in the Visegrad Group countries, Serbia and Croatia

“…It was the most notable in Slovakia, less in the Czech Republic and Hungary and least strong in Poland. This decrease in economic status was similarly mentioned by Blažek and Csank (2005), Lang (2015), Kebza et al (2015), Klamár (2016) and Kubeš and Kebza (2018).…”

“…When selecting appropriate hierarchical level of compared territorial units, the lower level of the observational unit, the more growing problem of the availability and relevance of observed data and time series (Klamár, 2016). In international comparisons, mainly levels NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 are used.…”

Tourism as a Factor of Regional Development: The Case of Eastern Slovakia

“…However, some plans for development must be laid down in order to preserve resources and ensure complementarity between areas. Klamár (2016) characterizes the regional development as a process aimed at creating a viable and a productive region, building its competitiveness with the help of local potential and spatial diversity. Tourism development in the underdeveloped regions enables development of the periphery, retaining Wstęp Funkcja gospodarcza turystyki została wyróżniona jako czynnik stymulujący gospodarkę i czynnik rozwoju regionów.…”

“…Należy jednak ustanowić pewne plany rozwoju, aby zachować zasoby i zapewnić komplementarność między obszarami. Klamár (2016) charakteryzuje rozwój regionalny jako proces mający na celu stworzenie realnego i produktywnego regionu, budowanie jego konkurencyjności za pomocą lokalnego potencjału i różnorodności przestrzennej. Rozwój turystyki w słabo rozwiniętych regionach umożliwia rozwój peryferii, zapobiega emi-Tourism as a factor of regional development... Turystyka jako czynnik rozwoju regionalnego... the population in the homeland, infrastructure is improved as well as all other activities which contribute to the prosperity of the region and a country (Petrevska, Manasieva-Gerasimova, 2012).…”

Geographical context of the revealed competitiveness of urbanised areas in Hungary excluding the Budapest agglomeration

“…These studies include country comparisons (Bartha, Szita, 2015;IMD, 2014;WEF, 2015), NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 (No-menclature of Territorial Units for Statistics according to the European Union classification) level analyses (EC, 2014;Enyedi, 2009;Klamár, 2016;Madzevic, et al, 2013;Lengyel, Rechnitzer, 2013a;Zenka, et al, 2014), as well as LAU1 and LAU2 (Local Administrative Units according to the European Union classification) level analyses (Csomós, 2015;Lengyel, Szakálné Kanó, 2012). The common point of the former analyses is that they applied available and measurable indicators as well as mathematical methods, which enabled to make rankings between the analysed regions.…”