Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/y7v64tw4py
SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN NORTHWESTERN CROATIA: STATISTICAL REGIONALIZATION AS A FRAME FOR ELASIC SUB-REGION
Saša Poljanec Borić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8076-5008
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Abstract
Quality of life is the concept closely related to the concept of standard of living which is, in turn, related to the competitiveness. Standard of living usually relates to physical conditions of life, goods and services that can be consumed and resources that can be accessed. Research has shown that Croatia had a stable growth of standard of living in 2000 – 2008 periods. Also, relatively high general and subjective happiness has been documented. What is applicable to the national level can be, mutatis mutandis, applied to the northwest Croatia as it features the highest regional competitiveness. The controversy related to the administrative division of country by counties and statistical division of country into two regions – Continental and Adriatic Croatia – has been resolved in the new Law on Regional Development from 2015 which left the county division of country intact. However, the mentioned law established urban agglomerations as new actors of regional development. Thus, the new law created bigger number of different types of actors of regional development. In order to facilitate the monitoring of the effects of regional development it is suggested that, within the current statistical regionalization of country, northwest Croatia should be regarded as an elastic sub-region.
Keywords
Quality of life; northwest Croatia; competitiveness; statistical region; elastic sub-region
Hrčak ID:
191528
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2017.
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