Regional Development in Croatia from the turn of Millennium to the EU accession

Rácz, Szilárd

doi:10.15196/rs04206

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“…Though our findings in Dalmatia were non-significant, it is possible that residents of Slavonia sought employment in the tourism sector along the coast during the 2008 economic crisis. Unemployment in Slavonia was about 130–180% higher than the national average and an estimated 35,000 residents migrated elsewhere in the country during our study period [26].…”

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Geographic distribution and risk of upper urothelial carcinomas in Croatia, 2001–2011

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Background Strong associations exist between Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) and upper urothelial carcinomas (UUCs). However, the common etiology between the two remains unclear and there are no studies to date that visualize UUC risks in Croatia. In Croatia, 14 villages in the southwestern part of Brod-Posavina County are considered endemic for BEN. The aim of this ecological study is to map cancer risks and describe the case distribution of UUCs in Croatia at the county level during 2001–2011. Methods A total of 608 incident cases from the Croatian National Cancer Registry were identified. Indirect standardization was employed to compute standardized incidence ratios (SIRs). Results Counties with SIRs greater than 1 were concentrated around the agricultural region of Slavonia and the coastal region of Dalmatia. However, only Brod-Posavina County and Vukovar-Srijem County had a statistically significant risk of UUC development, where there were 390 and 210% more UUC cases observed than expected, respectively. Only unique to Brod-Posavina County, females were at higher risk (SIR 4.96; 95% CI 3.59–6.34) of developing UUCs than males (SIR 3.03; 95% CI 2.04–4.01) when compared to their Croatian counterparts. Although Brod-Posavina County only made up 3.7% of the total Croatian population (as of 2011), it had the highest frequency of incident UUC cases after the capital City of Zagreb. No elevated cancer risks were noted in the City of Zagreb, even after stratifying by sex. Conclusion Our findings suggest that Brod-Posavina County had the highest cancer risk for UUCs, especially among females, when compared to Croatia as a whole during 2001–2011. Given that a majority of BEN patients develop associated UUCs, concurrent screening programs for UUCs and BEN should be considered not only in endemic areas of BEN but also the surrounding rural areas and amongst at-risk groups such as those undergoing hemodialysis, who frequently develop UUCs, to help clarify BEN-UUC associations by identifying common risk factors while standardizing disease estimates across endemic regions for BEN.

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Geographic distribution and risk of upper urothelial carcinomas in Croatia, 2001–2011

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“…The project elaborating capacities of Hungarian counties situated along the border, especially Osijek-Baranya are significant and successful, 43% of obtained project funding in the two countries is realised in this area. This indicates the availability of potential and receptivity as well (Sumpor, et al, 2013;Rácz, 2014).…”

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“…Albeit wages are higher in Croatia, this is accompanied by long-term unemployment which indicates the inflexibility of the labour market. Qualified labour force would be the key, however, the border region is in a disadvantageous position in terms of the rate of people with a secondary or higher educational qualification as well (Rácz, 2014;Suvák, 2014). Among the spatial structural characteristics it is worth noting that the area is situated at the intersection of peripheral areas characterised by a loose urban network dominated by small rural villages and a lack of functional cities coupled with the presence of a fluvial frontier serving as a dividing boundary along the majority of the border section (Figure 2).…”

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Main characteristics of Hungarian-Croatian political relations and cross-border co-operations

Rácz¹

2017

Geogr Pannon

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The objective of the study is to present the main features of Hungarian-Croatian political relations and cross-border co-operations with a focus on the past 25 years. The study will discuss the various eras and specifics of Hungarian-Croatian political relations, the features of the borderland and cross-border relations, the spatial structural and infrastructural bases of the co-operation and the hard and soft factors of relations. The maintenance of the historically rooted relations -eight centuries of personal union, a rare example of a millennium of peaceful coexistence in Central Eastern Europe is more or less visible. Notwithstanding, coexistence between the two nationalities did not transcend the religious and cultural sphere, in most respects they only shared a common territory with each other. During the past 25 years, both Hungary and Croatia have witnessed a profound change in their perception of borders and neighbourhood relations. A new period began with Croatia becoming an autonomous state, the era of state-building characterised by inward orientation. Croatia has embarked on the road towards Euro-Atlantic Integration as a symbol of its new orientation at the turn of the millennium, which exerted a strong impact on the perception of borders and effective co-operation, while there has been a gradual deepening of Hungarian-Croatian relations. A period was concluded with the EU accession of Croatia, henceforth co-operations are established between two EU member states. This, however, does not imply positive practices in all cases. The MOL-INA affair transcending the internal corporate sphere severely damaged interstate political relations, deteriorating further with the 2015 refugee crisis.

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“…Less developed regions have relatively less capital and/or lower level of technological development. This, on the one hand, offers a higher rate of return on capital which attracts external investment, and on the other hand, facilitates a technological leap forward, causing an increase in capital and productivity and consequently faster economic growth (Rácz, 2014). This sounds plausible, but in reality it is not always observable, as less developed regions may develop more slowly than more developed regions due to a number of other factors that can impact economic growth.…”

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The socio-economic performance of the Hungarian NUTS3 regions between 2010-2020.

Berkes,

Dusek

2023

The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Touris

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The aim of the study is to analyse the changes in the socio-economic performance of Hungarian regions in the previous decade. The first part of the paper deals with the epistemological and methodological questions of the analysis of temporal change of spatial differences of various individual and composite socio-economic indicators. In the second part the empirical analysis will be conducted at the county level (NUTS 3 level, 20 spatial units), including a wide range of economic, social and demographic variables. The analysis is concerned with processes over an eleven-year period, 2010-2020. Our methodology combines the analysis of individual indicators with the use of complex aggregated indicators composed of several indicators. Some of the counties show higher level of socio-economic performance with more developed infrastructure, higher quality of education and stronger economic base. However, the picture is not entirely uniform, there are small, moderately positive and negative movements compared to the national average.

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Regional Development in Croatia from the turn of Millennium to the EU accession

Cited by 6 publications

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Geographic distribution and risk of upper urothelial carcinomas in Croatia, 2001–2011

Geographic distribution and risk of upper urothelial carcinomas in Croatia, 2001–2011

Main characteristics of Hungarian-Croatian political relations and cross-border co-operations

The socio-economic performance of the Hungarian NUTS3 regions between 2010-2020.

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