Post‑crisis Economic Environment of Two Central and Eastern European Regional Centres: A Comparative Approach

• Authors: Zsuzsanna Zsibók , Ildikó Egyed

Title variants

PL

Otoczenie gospodarcze dwóch ośrodków regionalnych Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej po kryzysie: podejście porównawcze

Abstracts

PL

Opracowanie przedstawia wynik badania ekonomicznych podstaw dla ożywienia gospodarczego i procesu nadrabiania zaległości po globalnym kryzysie finansowym i gospodarczym, w oparciu o porównanie studium przypadku regionów Cluj‑Napoca w Rumunii i Pécs na Węgrzech. Wykorzystano eksploracyjną analizę danych statystycznych do opisu otoczenia gospodarczego regionów po kryzysie w kontekście zróżnicowanych wyników gospodarki będącej w stanie trwałego rozgrzania w tych dwóch krajach. Następnie przeanalizowano ewolucję produktu krajowego brutto per capita w postaci zdekomponowanej, co pozwoliło na wgląd w główne wyzwania rozwoju regionalnego w obu ośrodkach regionalnych. Wyniki analizy wskazują, że do długoterminowych wyzwań gospodarczych należy podchodzić przy pomocy polityki regionalnej zorientowanej na efektywność, która opiera się na kapitało‑ i wiedzochłonnym wzroście.

EN

Our research studies the economic background of recovery and catching‑up after the global financial and economic crisis, comparing the case study areas of Cluj‑Napoca in Romania and Pécs in Hungary. We use explorative statistical data analysis to describe the post‑crisis regional economic environment in the context of the differential outcomes of the high‑pressure economy in these two countries. Then, we analyse the evolution of the per capita gross domestic product in a decomposed form which provides insights into the main challenges of regional development in the two regional centres. The results show that long‑run economic challenges must be handled with an efficiency‑oriented regional policy that relies upon capital and knowledge‑intensive growth.

Keywords

PL

rozwój regionalny; wzrost gospodarczy; Węgry; Rumunia; analiza porównawcza

EN

regional development; economic growth; Hungary; Romania; comparative analysis

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 43-61

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Zsuzsanna Zsibók

• Research fellow, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary

• https://orcid.org/0000000193831134

author

Ildikó Egyed

• Research fellow, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute for Regional Studies, Hungary

• https://orcid.org/0000000287116270

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1508-2008.25.21

Biblioteka Nauki

2106293