THEORETICAL CONCEPT OF REGIONAL INEQUALITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CREATING UNIVERSITY TEXTBOOK – REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT – FACTORS, INEQUALITIES AND CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION
THEORETICAL CONCEPT OF REGIONAL INEQUALITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CREATING UNIVERSITY TEXTBOOK – REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT – FACTORS, INEQUALITIES AND CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION

Author(s): Radoslav Klamár, Alena Madzikova, Martin Rosič
Subject(s): Higher Education , Pedagogy
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: factors of regional development; regional inequalities; crossborder cooperation; indicators; statistical criterion for evaluation; university textbook;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present one of three principal chapters of an upcoming university textbook titled Regional Development – Factors, Inequalities and Cross-Border Cooperation. Each of the platforms in question whether the factors of regional development, regional inequalities or crossborder cooperation use their own research instruments and a set of research methods that are important to be comprehensibly outlined to students as one linked system. In the paper presented the attention is drawn to the stage of dealing with one of them, namely the problem of regional inequalities in works by domestic and foreign authors while the structure of summarizing study has been designed as the basis for the contents of the upcoming university textbook chapter. Apart from defining terms inequality or regional inequalities the attention is focused on their attributes, classification, characteristics of the most often used evaluation indicators and the selection of statistical instruments and criterion for their measuring.

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