ЗАКОНОМЕРНОСТИ ДИФФЕРЕНЦИАЦИИ УСПЕШНОСТИ ВНУТРЕННИХ РЕГИОНОВ СТРАН ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО СОЮЗА

• Authors: Komarova Vera , Selivanova-Fyodorova Natalya , Lonska Yelena

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Regularities of the performance’s differentiation of the internal regions of the European Union countries

• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

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The purpose of this article is to study the performance of the internal regions of the EU countries in a broader sense than economic performance. The Human Development Index (HDI) is suitable as a tool for measuring the performance of regions, since its methodology is based on the idea that it is not economic growth in itself, but people and their capabilities that should be determining criteria for assessing the performance of territories. The object of this study is the internal (functional) regions of the EU member states. In turn, the subject of the study is the regularities in the performanceís differentiation of the object of study. To achieve the goal of this article, the authors studied the form and degree of differentiation of the internal regions of the countries of the European Union in terms of their performance measured by the HDI. The study was carried out by checking the correspondence to the Gaussian curve of the distribution of regions according to the probabilities of the average HDI values, as well as by analyzing the degree of differentiation of the internal regions of the European Union countries according to the HDI using the coefficient of variation. The source of empirical information for this study is the database of subnational HDI for the period from 1990 to 2017, created by the Global Data Lab of Radboud University (Netherlands). An analysis of the distribution parameters of the internal regions of the European Union countries (with an emphasis on Latvia and Poland) and the United States (for comparison) on the subnational HDI for the period from 1990 to 2017, as well as an assessment of its [distribution] correspondence to the Gaussian curve, showed that the performanceís differentiation of the internal regions of the EU countries graphically corresponds to the Gaussian curve, i.e. has the form of a normal distribution, while the most successful are almost always the capital regions. In turn, the trajectory of changes in the degree of performance’s differentiation of the internal regions of the countries of the modern EU takes the form of an inverted U-shaped curve, i.e. the differences in the performance of the regions in the territorial space that the EU is now, increased during the last 28 years in the period of collapse of the East European socialist bloc in the early 1990s, and then decreased as the regions adapted to the new conditions of independence and market economy. Thus, the performance’s differentiation of the internal regions of the EU countries over the past three decades was not chaotic, but occurred in accordance with certain regularities empirically proven by the authors for the first time both on an unchanged sample of 278 regions of the EU member states for 2018 and for “cleaned” sample of the internal regions of the EU countries, taking into account the year of their joining the European Union.

Keywords

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differentiation; performance of regions; European Union; normal distribution; coefficient of variation; Latvia; Poland

• Publisher: Daugavpils University, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Journal: Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 30-54

Contributors

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Komarova Vera

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Selivanova-Fyodorova Natalya

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Lonska Yelena

Identifiers

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1691-1881