Original scientific paper
PAUPERIZATION AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT – SLAVONIA AND BARANJA IN THE EYES OF THEIR OWN INHABITANTS
Antun Šundalić
Abstract
The author considers the problem of poverty and underdevelopment as a regional feature within the Croatian society. Which region is poorer within the framework of a national state is the issue on which certainly the economic and demographic structures have influence, but on the Croatian society the consequences of war activities also.
The region of Slavonia and Baranja is in Croatia traditionally recognizable by its rurality and agricultural economy. During the latest decade the region has been more and more recognizable by its features of depopulation, de‐industrialisation and unemployment, which, when the two first characteristics are added, gain the common denominator of being devoid of promising feature, as well as the pauperisation of the region recently affluent in food production and high employment.
Where are the reasons for this kind of transformation, and how does the population of Slavonia and Baranja accept the
existing status is the author’s subject of analysis that he carried out on the basis of theoretical finds and statistical data,
but also on the basis of the results of the carried out research. The question that has also been put forward in this paper is
the one if the pauperization in this region is perceived as a ‘situational compulsion’ or is it already in the phase of becoming
a reality as ‘the culture of poverty’.
Keywords
poverty; pauperisation; underdevelopment; transition; Slavonia and Baranja
Hrčak ID:
7544
URI
Publication date:
7.7.2006.
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