QUANTIFICATION OF REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN SLOVAKIA FROM ASPECT OF GDP PER CAPITA
QUANTIFICATION OF REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN SLOVAKIA FROM ASPECT OF GDP PER CAPITA

Summary/Abstract: One of the cardinal conditions of successful regional policy and its effective implementation in particular economic environment is knowledge of objective territory, i.e. region, its features, problems, strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Besides it is important to set some rules according to which the regional policy will be realized. Rules of regional policy are based on indicators, which should have the highest expressing ability and which enable to compare the regions each other or to compare particular territories in different time periods. Fair and undiscriminating principles of regional policy redound not only to its effective implementation, but also to reduction of regional disparities, what is the main aim of regional policy of the European Union, in which the Slovak republic has been a full member since 1May 2004. This paper analyzes regional disparities in the Slovak republic at NUTS 3 level, i.e. at level of regions from aspect of regional gross domestic product per capita in the time period of 1995 – 2008. Disparities within this indicator have deepening tendency and we have not noticed the change of this tendency yet. Contrariwise we assume that the deepening tendency of regional disparities will continue not only in development of GDP per capita.

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