Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Jiří Blažek |
Title: Proposal of a new design of the future EU Cohesion Policy
Abstract: Th e aim of this article is to present a proposal for a new EU Cohesion policy design for the next programming period (i.e. 2014-2020). Th e proposal presented is in line with a debate proceeding on a European level on the following key conceptual dilemmas of this policy: 1) relation of EU cohesion policy and Lisbon strategy, 2) relation of EU cohesion policy and so called ?new challenges? (demographic changes, sustainable and secure energy, climatic changes, globalization, and security issues), 3) question, if EU cohesion policy should support all European regions or only selected ? most needy ? regions. With those conceptual dilemmas in mind, a concrete proposal for a new design of a future EU Cohesion policy is submitted to debate of both experts and decision-makers. Namely, incorporation of ?new challenges? into cohesion policy is proposed. In case of Objective 1 regions, these regions would be eligible not only for traditional activities/projects supported within this policy but also for activities responding to new challenges according to their own preferences. Objective 2 would be reoriented exclusively towards the new challenges and would be opened to all European regions with the exception of those with Objective 1 status. To achieve a suffi cient concentration of resources and eff ort each region/country would make their own selection of new challenges they consider as a priority. Extending the EU support to all European regions would have obvious fi nancial consequences. Namely, it is proposed that fi nancial resources needed for implementation of new Objective 2 would be reallocated from Common Agriculture Policy. Th e GDP is proposed to remain a single criterion for eligibility under Objective 1, while per capita fl at rate is proposed to be an allocation criterion for Objective 2 regions. Th is fl at rate would involve a convergence mechanism as in less developed countries for the same amount of money can be achieved more due to their lower price level. Introduction of new additional criteria for both Objective 1 and 2 is discouraged both due to limited comparability of data on international level and due to the fact that each country would be tempted to propose such indicators that would be advantageous for them resulting in never ending debate.
Keywords: proposal for a new design of future cohesion policy, new challenges, criteria for eligibility, financial implications, implications for implementation, nnávrh nového zaměření kohezní politiky, nové výzvy, kritéria pro oprávněné regiony, finanční implikace, implikace pro implementaci
Pages: 29-33
Volume: 2008
Issue: 2
Year: 2008
File-URL: http://www.vse.cz/rst/55
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Milan Damborský
Author-Name: Gabriela Říhová
Title: Foreign Direct Investment in the Czech Republic
Abstract: Th e theme of this article, foreign direct investments and its regional development dimension, can be included into fundamental themes of regional development. Authors present the impact of infl ow of foreign direct investments (FDI) on the regional disparities in the Czech Republic. Th e key question of the article is ?in which regions the foreign direct investments have caused the regional economic disparities?. Th e analyses of FDI are based on the regional statistic database which was made public by the Czech Nation Bank in March 2008. Th e regions are classifi ed in line with the project ?MasterCard Czech Centers of Commerce? in the article. Th e regions (NUTS III) are divided into fi ve basic groups. Th e most developed region in the Czech Republic is Hl. m. Praha (fi rst group). Středočeský kraj, Plzeňský kraj and Jihočeský kraj are included in the second group ?over average developed regions?. Th ird group is the group of ?average regions?, these are Liberecký kraj, Pardubický kraj, Jihomoravský kraj, Královehradecký kraj, Zlínský kraj and Vysočina. Th is group is followed up by the group of ?rather under average developed regions?, Olomoucký kraj, Moravskoslezský kraj, and the group of ?the weakest regions?, Karlovarský kraj, Ústecký kraj (Wokoun, 2008). Under the condition of that the infl ow FDI is very positive for the region and based on the socioeconomic analysis of development of the Czech regions is the impact of FDI on regional disparities ambiguous. FDI have increased the regional disparities in the regions Hl. m. Praha, Středočský kraj, Královéhradecký kraj, Zlínský kraj, Karlovarský kraj, Olomoucký kraj and Ústecký kraj and decreased the disparities in the regions Jihočeský kraj, Plzeňský kraj, Moravskoslezský kraj. Th e ambiguous situation is in the regions Liberecký kraj, Pardubický kraj, Jihomoravský kraj and Vysočina.
Keywords: foreign direct investment, přímé zahraniční investice, regional development, regionální rozvoj, lokalizace, localization, trade, district, podnik, okres
Pages: 22-28
Volume: 2008
Issue: 2
Year: 2008
File-URL: http://www.vse.cz/rst/56
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Tomáš Lechner
Title: Some Aspects of Regional Development of Information Society in the Czech Republic
Abstract: Th e paper starts with the priority goals of the Strategy of regional development for the period of 2007?2013, whereas increasing in competitiveness is supposed to be one of the most important items of regional development. On the grounds of general economic view of use of information and communication technologies (ICT) the proposition that use of ICT is just basic presumption for increasing in competitiveness is being discussed gradually, which is also applicable within regional level. In terms of regional development in the Czech Republic I show the situation of Public Administration and its development, where the ICT are used as well. Th e main part of the paper deals with comparison of NUTS 3 regions of the Czech Republic with respect to three realms: economical development of regions, modernization of Public Administration by means of ICT and information society development in the sphere of households. Th e rate of correlation of mentioned realms is examined by means of chosen indicators in 2006. Both the correlation coeffi cient between the level of electronization of Public Administration and the economical situation of region, and the correlation coeffi cient between the extent of development of information society in the sphere of households and the economical situation of region are approximately 0.65, which shows positive dependency of investigated realms. Th ere is discussed development of chosen indicators in the period of 2003?2006. Th e results are following: ? Prague has a dominant position of all investigated realms. ? Th e correlation between modernization of Public Administration and general regional development is not explicit in the period of 2003?2006, on the other hand if I take into account signifi cant regional projects of development of electronic services of Public Administration, such as Interspis Project in Prague and Virtuos Project in Plzeňský region, I fi nd a positive correlation between mentioned realms. ? Unfavorable situation of modernization of Public Administration need not indicate low economical factors, but in regions, where these economical factors are low, development of public electronic services embodies similar characteristic. ? Th e typology of NUTS 3 regions of the Czech Republic based on our research, which means with respect to our investigated realms, roughly corresponds to the general typology by R. Wokoun.
Keywords: Czech Republic, Česká republika, Strategy of Regional Development, Information infrastructure, Regional Development of Information society, Public Administration, Strategie regionálního rozvoje, informační infrastruktura, regionální rozvoj informační společnosti, veřejná správa
Pages: 34-40
Volume: 2008
Issue: 2
Year: 2008
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: René Matlovič
Author-Name: Radoslav Klamár
Author-Name: Kvetoslava Matlovičová
Title: Development of regional disparities in Slovakia at the beginning of 21st century based on the selected indicators
Abstract: At the basis of analysis of selected socio-economical indicators at the regional level in Slovakia, we pointed out on a diff erentiated development in particular regions. Regional disparities among the regions in Slovakia deepen continually. It was confi rmed by the calculated constants ? Gini coeffi - cient IG a variable coeffi cient VK. Th e development of those economical indicators was mirrored also in the socio-economical sphere in the relatively large disparities in the unemployment rate and the number of completed apartments per 1000 inhabitants. Th e only economical indicator showing the leveling of regional disparities is the one of the number of priváte entrepreneurs in business under trade act per 1000 inhabitants. From the regional point of view its position is the worst in Prešov region. It indicates the lowest values in most of the indicators furthermore its position is either stagnating or even getting worse. Th e Prešov region is a permanent leader in the gross birth rate, however its overall position weakens as it is the most loosing region in migration. (Matlovic, 2003) From this point of view it is regarded to be the source of labour force for the other regions. Th ere are several reasons of Prešov region leeway, as well as, the leeway of whole eastern Slovakia together with Banská Bystrica region. Th ey are directly related to the eccentric position of the mentioned region, its weak availability and unfi nished infrastructure (especially the highway), its high concentration of inhabitants with low socio-economical status, its neighborhood with cross-boundary regions having similar problems and primarily it is caused also by its improper regional politics, which causes that the localization of foreign investments into the economically most developed regions does not equalize the disparities, but rather creates the conditions for their capital deepening (translated by Barbora Némethyová).
Keywords: regional disparities, regionálne disparity, regional politics, socioeconomic indicators, Gini coefficient, variety coefficient, NUTS III, socioekonomické ukazovatele, Giniho koeficient, variačný koeficient, regionálna politika, NUTS III
Pages: 2-12
Volume: 2008
Issue: 2
Year: 2008
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: František Murgaš
Title: Regional differentiation of the quality of life in Slovakia
Abstract: Th e very beginnings upon the quality of life lead to antique period. In modern times society of the West began to deal with it in 60?s aft er revelation that the wealth-growth did not correspond with the growth of contentment of life at all. One observes its study as a sequence, in which the key-elements are interpretation and defi nition. Th e quality of life can be expressed resp. evaluated only vicariously, and that is by means of its indicators. In the spatial dimension indicators are usually aggregated into domains. We had identifi ed 21 indicators in domains of the prosperity, deprivation and human capital. In offi ciating of the function of particular indicators we used the method of expert scaling. Th e overall statement from applied indicators and consequently of the quality of life is the Index of the quality of life. We had enumerated it as the sum of transformed variables, to which the expert panel had assigned a scale. Th e regional disparities were quantifi ed by the Gini coeffi cient. We can observe a considerable diff erentiation in the spatial output of the domain of prosperity (map 1). Th e divisions of middle and higher values can be found on the left from the divisions-line in direction SW ? NE, starting with Senec, Nitra, Zvolen and Poprad. From the divisions-line on the right there is situated only the municipality Košice. In the domain of deprivation (map 2) one perceives semi-circling organization of divisions around a group of divisions with the lowest level (and consequently the most deprived) in the South of the Central Slovakia. Noteworthy is the high quality (and so low deprivation) of the divisions in the North of Slovakia and the divisions of the region Prešov. In the domain of human resources asserts West and North-South gradient. Th e region of Bratislava constitutes the ?pole? of human capital as the only one from the group of regions, which follows from the fact that the high level in the domain is not reached by any from mentioned divisions. Th ere can be deduced several conclusions from the regional diff erentiation of the Index of quality of life in Slovakia: ? exercise of West and North-South gradient, ? the highest level of the quality of life reaches the region of Bratislava. Its position posed the character of a ?pole?, because the other divisions follow with a distance, ? the group of divisions with middle (from outside-Bratislava with the highest) quality of life gravitates in continous strip from Bratislava by Považie towards Poprad. Isolated divisions with high level of development like Nitra, Prešov, Košice etc. belong to the group as well, ? the lowest quality of life in Slovakia is reached by the divisions in continuous strip in the South of the Central and East Slovakia, to which belong also isolated divisions such as Komárno, Turčianske Teplice and Medzilaborce.
Keywords: indicators, indikátory, prosperity, deprivation, human capital, Index of quality of life, prosperita, deprivácia, humánny kapitál, Index kvality života
Pages: 13-21
Volume: 2008
Issue: 2
Year: 2008
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Annamária Uzzoli
Title: The mortality situation and its spatial dimension in Hungary
Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine Hungarian mortality situation and to analyse its spatial aspects. The conclusion is the marked deterioration in Hungarian health has been going on since the middle of the 1960s. The extremely high morbidity and mortality situation in Hungary is almost unparalleled among the post Socialist Countries and currently worse situations can only be found amongst the recent former states of the Soviet Union. The rate of death in Hungary caused by malignant neoplasm is currently the highest anywhere in Europe. The state of health of the Hungarian population is worse than justifi ed by the level of economic development. There are signifi cant mortality differentials between the Western and the Eastern half of the country. The difference between the average life expectancy of the counties of the best and the worst values is 2.5 years. The outcome of this research project can be used in practical planning tasks as background material and can provide a lot of valuable information regarding the social groups concerned.
Keywords: Hungary, Mortality, health inequalities, spatial structure, regional indicators
Pages: 41-50
Volume: 2008
Issue: 2
Year: 2008
File-URL: http://www.vse.cz/rst/60
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