Regional disparities and the ways of their measurement: the case of the Visegrad Four countries

  • Tvrdoň, Michal
  • Skokan, Karel
Publication date
October 2011
Publisher
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Abstract

Real convergence of countries within European Union is measured mostly at the national level by the indicator of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Generally, countries with relatively low GDP per capita should catch-up with richer ones and this has become the main objective of post-communist countries at the beginning of the transition process. However, when we look at the regional level and regional GDP per capita data in these countries one can assume that the intensity of real convergence strongly differs among regions and disparities between regions still prevail. The paper attempts to identify factors responsible for persistence of regional disparities in the Visegrad Four countries. In the paper, available Eurostat NUTS 3 stati...

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