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Regional development and social indicators in Croatia

Systematic analysis of living standards, poverty, inequality and regional development are not performed on a regular basis in Croatia. Comprehensive profile of living standards and poverty has not been derived since the last World Bank report in 2001, while regional growth and social profile have not been examined at all. Therefore, the aim of this research is to provide a comprehensive profile of social and economic characteristics of Croatia's regions at NUTS III level. Regional profile of government’ s social transfers to households is also analyzed. In this paper, demographic and economic structure of Croatian economy is analyzed, as well as the process of secondary distribution of income in Croatia on the regional level. According to data availability limitation, the analysis was restricted to the period 2001-2003. We also tried to assess effectiveness of government social transfers to households given the regional inequality profile. Also, sources of growth on the regional level and growth prospects were identified. The paper includes two appendices. The first appendix presents the regional GDP by counties for period 2001-2003, and the second appendix presents preliminary data on gross disposable income of household sector in Croatia.

regional develoment, social policy, Croatia

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