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Characteristics of Regional Development in the Republic of Croatia and Modelling a Database Aimed at its Monitoring and Preparing Adequate Measures of Economic and Social Policies

The Republic of Croatia is making advances towards full EU membership. Various indicators reveal that our country is currently attaining macroeconomic performance of lesser-developed members of the EU, but in comparison to the developed EU countries, there are significant disparities. The forthcoming accession to the EU will also strongly bring into focus the problem of uneven development of Croatian regions. Although these differences cannot be completely eliminated, extra effort should be made to alleviate them in the forthcoming years. This paper will try to identify the basic features of regional development in Croatia and formulate a possible framework for economic and social policies that could be used to alleviate current inequalities. Another goal of this research is therefore to emphasize how important it would be to construct a database model which would enable us to systematically monitor regional development, and which would be the information basis for proposing appropriate measures of economic and social policies.

regional development ; economic and social policies ; development strategies ; development indicators ; database model

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