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Evaluation of regional development and (im)balances: the Croatian case

The paper deals with an evaluation of the regional development level and (im)balances. The evaluation is based on the multicriterial evaluation of a set of the chosen indicators representing single dimensions in a complex regional structure. To evaluate the relative level of regional development (on the example of Croatian regions / counties) in terms of single dimensions and in terms of all dimensions we have applied an increasingly popular, linear-programming-based method - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Special attention has been paid to the possibility of arbitrary determination of weight for single indicators of regional development and their input into the appropriate DEA - model. For that purpose we have applied the modified ‘ weights-based’ DEA-model with reducing weight flexibility, and compared the results obtained by standard ‘ output maximization based’ DEA model and by modified ‘ weights-based’ DEA-model. We have used the obtained results as the basis to determine global recommendations for the build-up of a new model, i.e. the new regional development policy in Croatia.

regional development; relative efficiency; multicriterial evaluation; DEA

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