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Different lines of the development of rural
regions
Antonia Milbert
1. General remarks from the German case
2. A classification of rural regions by
structural weakness in OECD member countries
3. Analysing the development of rural regions
- population development - natural balance and
net-migration - labour force and gross regional
product
4. Results
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1. General remarks from the German case

• Different types of rural regions
• rural regions in the neighbourhood of
  agglomerations
• rural regions with a very high dynamic
  independent development
• rural regions with high potentials in agriculture
  and/or tourism
• rural regions with strong structural weakness

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2. A classification of rural regions by
structural weakness in OECD member countries
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3. Analysing the development of rural regions
- population development 1990-2000 - natural
balance and net-migration 1995-2000 - development
of labour force 1990-2000 - development of gross
regional product 1990-2000
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Correlation coefficient of the development of
labour force and of gross regional product with
total structural weakness (only significant
coefficients by 5)
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4. Results
Rural regions with structural weakness
- suffer more from negativ or substandard
development.
- become a disassociated position from the
national development
- some rural regions with ageing and decreasing
population are in danger to skid into the class
with the strongest structural weakness.
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4. Results
Structural weakness is not a typology more a
classification, but
- Reduction of the diversity within the rural
area is statistical significant only for the
indicators population development and
net-migration
- The development of other rural regions (with
less structural weakness) depends more on other
factors/potentials. Here a high diversity between
rural regions still exists.
-Structural weakness does not offer valuable
clues to the development of rural regions for
Austria, Ireland, Greece and to some extend
France and Czech Rebublic).
- Further investigation is necessary (deepening
the indicator based analyses, case studies).