Aspects regarding the socio-economic indicators used in approaching the territorial disparities

• Main Author: Ancuţa Cătălina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Novi Sad, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management 2012-01-01
• Series: Geographica Pannonica
• Subjects: disparities - definition and paradigm; socio-economic indicators; methodology; Banat (Romania)
• Online Access: http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-8724/2012/0354-87241201026A.pdf

Territorial disparities are a common topic in the studies of geographers and of the institutions responsible for local, regional and national development, as well as in the political discourse. The large number of studies offers a great variety of methodologies. The article starts with defining the concept of disparities while specifying its paradigm, then proposes a synthesis of approaches towards the analysis of regional disparities, establishing several types of such approaches and provides an example of detailed analysis on an intra-regional level of a region of Romania - Banat.