Rethinking Lagging Regions

Farole, Thomas; Goga, Soraya; Ionescu-Heroiu, Marcel

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“…This also derives from the fact that, about a decade later, none of the new towns fulfilled the full criteria list (Covăsnianu and Covăsnianu 2014; Veress 2016). Therefore, designing place-sensitive policies might better address the small towns specific needs while helping them reach their development potential (Farole, Goga, and Ionescu-Heroiu 2018). This might also lead to a better alignment between population and public interests to a common “territorial identity” which can increase investment efficiency and foster local development (Capello 2018).…”

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The Illusion of Urbanization: Impact of Administrative Reform on Communities’ Resilience

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International Regional Science Review

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While a large body of literature separately documents urban and rural resilience, little is known about how resilience evolves when communities experience an administrative reform that changes their judicial status from rural to urban. This paper explores the effects of the largest post-communist urbanization waves that took place in Romania in the early 2000s, when more communes were reclassified as towns. Using rich administrative data from 2000 to 2014, we employ a two-way fixed effect difference-in-differences research design to examine the impact of the reform on the resilience capacity of the affected communes. Our results reveal that the administrative reform had an initially positive impact on the physical resilience capacity. While the administrative reform did not have a significant effect on the overall resilience capacity of the newly declared towns, there are important differences across groups. The settlements situated in more developed counties and those with higher income levels were among the main beneficiaries. Negatively affected were mainly the poor communes and those that lack accessibility due to their mountain position and being far from big cities. In policy terms, this clearly emphasizes the need for place-sensitive policies complementing the administrative reform in order to help them escape from their rural uprootedness.

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The Illusion of Urbanization: Impact of Administrative Reform on Communities’ Resilience

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International Regional Science Review

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“…Los segmentos sociales ganadores en la nueva economía globalizada florecieron con la metropolización de las nuevas actividades económicas (Krugman, 1991;OCDE, 2018), los sectores sociales perdedores se concentraron en las ciudades que se desindustrializaron (Rodríguez-Pose, 2018, 2019, así como en las lejanas periferias urbanas, en las ciudades pequeñas y en las zonas rurales (Guilluy, 2013(Guilluy, , 2015. Otro rasgo más de esta evolución en la UE es que, después de diez años de convergencia en las tasas de crecimiento de las diversas regiones de sus territorios, éstas se revirtieron después de la crisis de 2008 (Farole et al, 2018). El aumento de la competitividad económica, cultural y política estimulado por la globalización también contribuyó a la conformación de un nuevo clivaje entre los beneficiados y los perjudicados, entre ganadores y perdedores de la globalización neoliberal.…”

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“…But even peripheral areas often have assets with a certain economic potential that are underused due to various constraints related to governance, market, or coordination failures. 28 To ensure inclusive growth across the portfolio of leading and lagging regions, policymakers can follow the basic principles of 3 Cs, tailored to the needs of individual regions (box 5).…”

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“…Countries use metrics of differing complexity to identify lagging regions, including indicators that measure multiple elements of economic and social outcomes, such as the poverty and welfare indicators discussed in chapter 3. 181 For the analysis presented in this chapter, we focus on basic economic outcomes-income level and growth 182 We adopt the language and basic approach of the EU Cohesion Policy's Lagging Regions Initiative, which identifies two types of lagging region: those that are poor, or 'low income' and those that are 'low growth'. 183 The analysis covers Albania, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Serbia using the NUTS 3 regional classification (NUTS 3 regions are not defined for Kosovo and Montenegro).…”

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Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review

2019

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and Serbia, without whose support this report could not have been produced. We also would like to thank our counterparts in the various countries including Liljana Zivkovic, Adelina Greca, Joni Baboci, and Genci Khojdelhi, and teams as well as representatives from all national statistical offices who supported us in the data gathering. ii A note on data This Urbanization Review is a regionally focused report that includes countries in the Western Balkan region-those that make up the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, barring Slovenia, as well as Albania. The report acknowledges that among these countries, Croatia has been a member state of the European Union since 2013. The larger objective of the report is to shed light on the economic, demographic, and urbanization trends across the seven countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, and in doing so, inform policy recommendations that would result in economic and welfare gains. It is important to note, however, that due to severe data limitations-in terms of availability, quality, and comparability-both at the national and subnational levels, analyses across the four chapters are varied with regard to the inclusion of specific countries, the time frames considered, as well as the sub-regional focus in the level of disaggregation. Having said that, to fulfill the objective of the report as well as to deliver robust findings, data gaps wherever possible were substituted with supplementary data sources, and multiple sources were considered to corroborate key messages Chapter 1: The chapter includes all seven countries when data are available and comparable. National level analysis of urbanization, demographic and economic trends is based mainly on World Development Indicators (2018) and The United Nations World Urbanization Prospects (2017 Revision) which use the official definition of urban areas to establish urbanization levels. The study of the linkages between the share of the urban population and economic development is based on a global dataset produced by Roberts et al. 2017, which uses definitions of urban areas consistent across countries. For the city-level analysis, the chapter relies mainly on two datasets: a global urban dataset produced by Roberts et al. 2017 and an Eastern Europe and Central Asia city dataset produced by Restrepo et al. 2017. Chapter 2: The chapter includes the capital cities Sarajevo, Tirana, Belgrade, Skopje, Podgorica, and Zagreb when data are available and comparable. Analysis of economic and demographic indicators relied on the Oxford Economics 2016 Global dataset as well as data from national statistical offices, when available. In most cases the time period used was post 2009, and the definition of capital cityregion was maintained at the NUTS 3 level to ensure consistency across countries. The Enterprise Survey (2013) and the Doing Business Report (2019) were used for characterizing the business regulatory environment. The water utility database compiled...

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Rethinking Lagging Regions

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The Illusion of Urbanization: Impact of Administrative Reform on Communities’ Resilience

The Illusion of Urbanization: Impact of Administrative Reform on Communities’ Resilience

The crisis of traditional party systems and the rise of populism in the European Union. The difficult political balance between national sovereignty and supranational neoliberalism

Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review

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