Regional development in Romania: Challenges and tools

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Regional development in Romania Challenges and
tools

• Slides for presentation to GEA conference on
• Regional Competitiveness in line with the Lisbon
  Agenda,
• November 23-24, 2006, Bucharest

Dumitru Sandu, University of Bucharest
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• Questions
• Approaches
• Challenges for regional development
• Critical tools for regional development
• Two examples of subregional disparities
  education and temporary migration abroad

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Basic questions and categories of indicators
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Basic approaches
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Challenges for regional development in Romania

• making development to be more
• sustainable and
• bottom-up
• by integrating
• community and regional development
• regional development and sectoral policies
• modern tools into the management process
• and reducing regional disparities by
• increasing competitiveness for poor regions and
  subregions
• promoting a balanced relation between
  competitiveness and moving aut of poverty
  measures

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Critical points on tools for regional development

• BASIC
• Bottom-up measures.Need for community
  poverty/development indices as basic measures to
  identify poverty pockets and to built bottom-up
  measures of regional development. Multiple
  deprivation index (MDI) in UK and DEVSAT in
  Romania as starting points
• Subregions. Computing regional development
  indicators by regions and subregions. Statistical
  regions should be multilevel, a step ahead
  development regions
• Institutions. Focusing the research and debate on
  evaluation of regional development institutions.
• NOT SO VISIBLE,BUT IMPORTANT
• Building regional development data basis of large
  accessibility.
• More master programs on community and regional
  development with direct implication of regional
  development practitionners

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Education disparities within development regions
Data source National Institute of Statistics,
2002 census of population. Percentages are from
total population that graduated a school or is
illiterate. Reading example6.3 aut of the total
reference population from North Muntenia in South
region graduated higher education schools,as
compared to only 3 în the South part of that
region. Shadow is on marked intra-regional
disparities. Own computations, DS.
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Temporary emigration abroad by subregions. 2002
NIS census data, 2002. Own computations, DS.
Figures are in per thousands.