The territorial disparities of Romania, as well as of other states, are a fundamental characteristic of the society's spatiality, with the changes thereof being conditional upon multiple factors. The economy and the society are unequally distributed spatially, this phenomenon being also...

The geopolitical change of direction taking place after 1989 induced a number of positive and negatíve social and economic changes in Hungary (as in the other post-socialist countries). Among the latter changes perhaps the most depressing one is that in the past two decades economic policy has...

Regional disparities have increased in Hungary over the course of the last two decades, despite the declared intentions of the government as well as domestic and foreign capital injections. Even our EU membership has not brought a substantial change in this respect. A social and economic...

The period 2007-2013 may be of decisive importance regarding the social and economic processes in the region of Northern Hungary for at least two reasons. The first long-term development program (7 years) was prepared after the changes in economic policy of1989 in order to improve the...

The decision makers of the European Union have committed themselves a great number of times in the past decades to decreasing the economic and social differences between regions in the member states. This was designed to be achieved by the regional (cohesion) policy of the community; this is...