Assessment and optimization of economic restructuring in a small peripheral region
An evaluation model is presented which is suitable for planning methods related to the construction of regional economic scenarios. The model is constructed for assessment and optimization the regional economic structure in the medium-run
. A scenario experiment was performed in a small peripheral area of Finland, Northern Karelia, in the early 1980s, and preliminary results are given regarding its ability to evaluate the course of restructuring in manufacturing in this area.
Demographic problems of the peripheral regions in Bulgaria case study area - the northwestern planning region
Bulgaria ; Demographic change ; Depopulation ; Depressed region ; Peripheral region ; Population ageing
The Northwestern planning region is a typical example of a peripheral area whose unfavourable geographical location has for a long time predetermined the poor growth of its economic potential. The peripheral position strongly restricts
the possibilities for a better education, for carrying out investigations, for making innovations and developing technologies or for stimulating the competitive power. The main problem of the peripheral is depopulation. During the period 1946-2002 the population
migration. The peripheral location causes a lower educational level of the population. - (BJ)
Developing SMMEs in peripheral spaces : the experience of Free State Province, South Africa
Economic policy ; Enterprise ; Free State ; Industry ; Peripheral region ; Regional economy ; Small firm ; South Africa
retained a commitment to the paradigm of state-led delivery. This article explores the challenges facing the development facing SMME development in the country's peripheral development spaces using the example of the Free State. - (AJC)
Regeneration policies for peripheral housing estates : inward-and outward-looking approaches
and marginalisation from employment opportunities. Economic problems commonly associated with peripheral estates include the lack of economic base and high levels of unemployment. Regeneration policies applied since the mid 1980s are examined.
Problem peripheral estates may be seen as a particular variant of the wider phenomenon of the hard-to-let social housing estate. Peripherality refers to a range of phenomena, including spatial isolation, long travel-to-work distances
Surviving in a peripheral periphery case studies from eastern Poland
Economy ; Living standard ; Peripheral region ; Poland ; Society
Poland being a EU's periphery has its own peripheries. These are Eastern regions which, in turn, also have their centres and peripheries. The latter - rural areas far from urban centres, can be called peripheral peripheries. Living ways
and conditions of their inhabitants were particularly affected by the transformation after 1989. The common characteristics of the new situation are unemployment, growing dependence on irregular incomes, economic and social instability and insecurity, growing
socio-economic differentiation implying impoverishment of a considerable part of the local population. Reactions of inhabitants to this situation is a mixture of passive adaptation to the declining living standards and incomes as well as some active
strategies, the most often being education and irregular incomes, economic and social instability and security, growing socio-economic differentiation implying impoverishment of a considerable part of the local population. Reactions of inhabitants
Regional and local responses to restructuring in peripheral rural areas in Finland
Economic restructuring ; Finland ; Landed property;Landed estate ; Local economy ; Peripheral region ; Regional development ; Rural area ; Rural economy ; Welfare state
Rural development is described as a series of historical layers of economic development and policies. Since 1945 there have been three successive national policy projects in Finland, with different rural impacts : the settlement project; the project
Core-periphery ; Economic impact ; Hungary ; Living standard ; Peripheral region ; Political reform ; Poverty ; Rural-urban relations ; Spatial distribution ; Town
The spatial income pattern of Hungary significantly altered after the political transition. The change influenced the territorial characteristics of peripheral areas. The development of the formerly backward areas in Western Hungary was confirmed
by the investigation of the lowest tenth of the income rank analysed in the study. The paper points out that the appearance of new peripheral settlements were in connection with the structural crisis of the mining and heavy industrial areas of NE and SW Hungary
. Peripheral settlements tend to concentrate territorially after the political transition causing the deepening of their depression. The backward situation of the peripheral areas can be regarded as stable, their catching up has not started yet. - (AM)
The place of peripherical regions in Moroccan planning
In contrast to other countries with a colonial past, Morocco had an existing precolonial urban pattern concentrated in the interior and a high population-density in unfavourable mountainous regions. The economic and spatial planning after 1956
of the peripheral regions, largely dependent on rainfed agriculture will therefore deteriorate. (AGD).
Some problems of counties administered under the Economic Region of Shanghai.
of a wider space, and (2) joint ventures with entreprises in peripheral towns strengthen their economic bases. Drawbacks are the passing on of waste disposal and environmental problems and accentuation of the distance factor which differentiates between
The changes in the administrative region centered at Shanghai in the past 30 years are outlined. The system of city administering over counties has the advantages of (1) lending technological and economic support to agriculture and industry
peripheral and remote areas. Speeding up decentralization and development of satellite towns are possible solutions. (TNC).
Evaluation of demographic potential in selected peripheral regions of Slovenia
Demographic change ; Peripheral region ; Regional disparities ; Slovenia ; Statistical analysis ; Years 1960-69 ; Years 1990-99
Considering its small territorial and population size, Slovenia nevertheless has a considerable geographic, economic and social variety. Not surprisingly, there are significant regional disparities. A resarch study analysed statistical data
for the chosen indicators in the periods 1961-1991 and 1991-2002 and evaluated the demographic potential in the four demographically endangered and economically less-developed areas. The study has also examined in detail eight settlements at selected areas
. A special emphasis was placed on the study of households as basis socio-economic units, on which future development of settlements is based. - (BJ)
Intra-urban migration of lower income groups and peripheral growth of Latin American metropolitan areas. The impact of political and social-economic factors
Indigeneous manufacturing enterprises in a peripheral economy and the Single Market : the case of the Republic of Ireland
Economic dependency ; Economic impact ; Enterprise;Firm ; Exporting industry ; Industrial development ; Industrial employment ; Industrial firm ; Industry ; Ireland ; Peripheral region ; Single European Market
Core-periphery ; Cultural landscape ; Demographic structure ; Economic structure ; Historical geography ; Middle Age ; Regional development ; Regional disparities ; Rural-urban relations ; Switzerland
established, the alpine areas turned into european peripheral areas. Since there are, to a large extent, no cities in the Alps, the development of regional central-peripheral-patterns is rather weak. In contrast, the demographic and economic distinctions
The article deals with central-peripheral-pattern for the whole alpine area, on a regional and on a local scale. Between the 16th and the 18th century, the alpine transversal countries developed into centres, but once the nation states were