REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN SLOVAK REPUBLIC AT NUTS 3 LEVEL FROM DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENTS POINT OF VIEW

• Main Author: Radoslav Koziak
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vasile Goldis University Press 2011-01-01
• Series: Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice
• Subjects: Direct foreign investments; NUTS 3 region; European Union; Slovak Republic; regional politics; convergence/divergence; Gini coefficient; Herfindahl index.
• Online Access: http://www.uvvg.ro/studiaeconomia/images/2001/v1/14.%20REGIONAL%20DISPARITIES%20IN%20SLOVAK%20REPUBLIC%20AT%20NUTS%203%20LEVEL%20FROM%20DIRECT%20FOREIGN%20INVESTMENTS%20POINT%20OF%20VIEW.pdf
• ISSN: 1584-2339; 2285-3065

Slovak Republic, likewise other member states of the European Union, has beenexperiencing problems with the inter-regional differences for long time. These aremanifested in different forms (economic, social, environmental and others). Diversemacroeconomic regional indicators are used to express and quantificate the inter-regionaldifferences. Among traditionally used and by experts acknowledged quantities ofmeasurement of the inter-regional differences belong for example a gross domestic product(from diverse viewpoint and specification), labor market indicators, e.g. employment andunemployment rates, demographic development indicators, indicators assessingenvironment condition or standard of life, as well as the indicators quantifying theinvestments condition and development (domestic or foreign) that flow into the objectterritory since we consider them an important factor and precondition of growth anddevelopment of the state as a whole, as well as its individual regions.The present contribution deals with an issue of the inter-regional differences formulationand measurement in the Slovak Republic on a NUTS 3 regions examination level (from anuniform system of the territorial units classification viewpoint), it means the autonomousdistricts (from a territorial-administrative order of Slovak Republic viewpoint), from directforeign investments‘ point of view.In the contribution there are theoretically defined basic concepts with which we operate,a specified methodological procedure for the inter-regional differences formulation andmeasurement, a direct foreign investments condition analysis from 1997 to 2007(development of the direct foreign investments during above period in all autonomousdistricts were subjected to a statistical examination) as well as statistical testing that willreveal a convergence (meaning a moderation/decrease) or a divergence (meaninga deepening) of the inter-regional disparities on the NUTS 3 level. In addition to anabsolute formulation of the direct foreign investments condition we also quantify them ina relative proportional formulation (meaning a particular region’s share on an overall directforeign investments flowing to Slovakia).This contribution is a partial issue of the project VEGA 1/1010/11 “Theoreticmethodologicalbasis of planning in terms of territorial self-governments in SR”.