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REGIONAL INEQUALITIES IN CROATIA VS. CEE COUNTRIES – WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER THE CORONA CRISIS

Most Central and Eastern European countries (CEE) record significant differences to European Union average, according to various indicators. Croatia is not an exception. Namely, Croatia also records significant sub-national inequalities i. e. regional inequalities, with respect to different level of socio-economic development. In this paper inequalities are presented among CEE countries and NUTS 2 level of CEE countries. This paper presents results of research on measuring inequalities according to composite index of (regional) development of CEE countries and gives a perspective of inequality expectations in the post-corona period. It gives an overview of most used indicator of GDP per inhabitant in order to gain insight into the changes that happened during three year period time (2017-2019). The growth of GDP per inhabitant can be observed, but it is lagging behind most CEE countries compared to EU 27 average (of 2020), and even their lagging behind of most of them compared to average of CEE countries. Based on mentioned, an adequate suggestions are drawn out and elaborated on. It is important to emphasize that calculation of composite development index is not used for the same period since the development index is created according to the latest available data nor it is used for the regional perspective, but for the development index of certain cities. Therefore, it is a novel that can be used and serve to the economic policy decision makers. Furthermore, certain expectations are drawn for institutional, economic and social level.

CEE countries, NUTS 2, inequalities, composite development indicator

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