Study of Regional Inequalities: Case of Bulgaria

Ivanov, Ivaylo

doi:10.3846/bme.2018.2275

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“…Most of the regional competitiveness indexes are developed to evaluate competitiveness of regions in one specific country, for example, regional competitiveness of the UK regions is evaluated by Birnie, Johnston, Heery, and Ramsey (2019); comparison between Belgian and German regions was done by Konings and Marcolin (2011); Aquilino and Wise (2016) did the evaluation of the competitiveness of the Northern and Southern macroregions of Italy. In recent years, regional competitiveness indexes were developed also in the new EU member states, for example in Latvia (Vesperis (2012), Judrupa and Senfelde, 2018), in Lithuania (Snieska and Bruneckiene, 2009), in Poland (Bronisz, Heijman, & Miszczuk, 2008), in Bulgaria (Ivanov, 2018), and in Romania (Costa, 2017). Only several indexes are used internationally.…”

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Evaluation of the Competitiveness of Statistical Regions in Latvia Using Official Statistical Information

Judrupa

Šenfelde

Juščius

2021

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There is a lack of methodologically grounded and generally accepted regional competitiveness’ evaluation method in Latvia. Common feature of the research about nature of competitiveness is that competitiveness of a region depends on how high and sustainable the level of prosperity in the region is. The analysis of scientific literature showed, that most often synthetic indexes are used to evaluate competitiveness of a region. Methodology to evaluate regional competitiveness was developed and approbated in case of Latvia. To identify the most appropriate method for competitiveness index calculation, Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) according to two different methods was calculated in the research. The results obtained were similar, but each of index calculation methods has its own advantages and disadvantages and the choice of the appropriate method will depend on the researcher's goals and objectives. Use of relative weights in index calculations affects the obtained results, therefore, necessity of relative weights must be economically justified. It was proven that regional competitiveness cannot be characterized by such simple indicators as GDP or GDP per capita. RCI shows the level of competitiveness of Latvia’s statistical regions, it is possible to compare regions in time and among each other. It allows to form regional development policy and strategy more reasonably.

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Evaluation of the Competitiveness of Statistical Regions in Latvia Using Official Statistical Information

Judrupa

Šenfelde

Juščius

2021

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“…Branzas and Gurgen (2014) [27] supported this statement by researching in Romania; according to them, Central and Eastern Europe Countries received the same amount of financing despite the level of their development. According to the authors, this refuted the primary purpose of the funding, which was to reduce the social and economic gap between the EU15 and Romania [27], i.e., the balanced development of regions has an impact on sustainable development [28]. The mentioned studies analyzed the EU financial support that was given until 2013.…”

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Impact of Investment Sources for Sustainability on a Country’s Sustainable Development: Evidence from the EU

2020

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All countries face several issues while running the process of sustainable development—the absence of a uniform means of sourcing investment for sustainable development and the lack of a unified index for the evaluation of sustainable development. No doubt, ensuring sustainable development requires constant financial investments. Hence, it is essential to examine the investment sources for sustainable development at the country level and to comprehend if the current financial investment has a direct impact on the results of a country’s sustainable development. The article aims at identifying the financing sources for sustainable development for each of the European Union (EU) countries and assessing their impact on each of the EU countries’ sustainable development, which is expressed as the Integrated Sustainable Development Index (ISDI). After the detailed analysis of investment sources for the sustainability of the EU countries, two sources of investment, assignation of budget and the EU structural funds, were selected, and ISDI calculation was applied for twenty-five of the EU member states for the period 2003–2017. Correlation analysis (using SPSS software) helped to identify the strength of the connection and to select countries for the Johansen Cointegration Test (using Eviews software) in order to determine how variables interact. The results show that the combination of the assignation of budget and the EU structural funds has a positive impact on the coherence of five (Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Slovenia, and Austria) out of twenty-four countries.

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The economy of Bulgarian Districts and its effect on environmental performance

Dimitrova¹

2020

The Challenges of Analyzing Social and Economic Processes in the 21st Century

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The aim of this study is to examine on the relationship between economic growth and environmental performance in the 28 Bulgarian districts for the period between 2010 and 2016. The results show that when in the cases where CO2 emissions are medium, the relationship with the economic growth is very weak. However, for those districts with higher CO2 emissions per capita there is a significant relation with the economic variables. This would mean that economic growth would have a strong effect on the air quality only after certain amount of CO2 emissions.

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Study of Regional Inequalities: Case of Bulgaria

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Evaluation of the Competitiveness of Statistical Regions in Latvia Using Official Statistical Information

Evaluation of the Competitiveness of Statistical Regions in Latvia Using Official Statistical Information

Impact of Investment Sources for Sustainability on a Country’s Sustainable Development: Evidence from the EU

The economy of Bulgarian Districts and its effect on environmental performance

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