Microregions and the Elimination of the Regional Disparities

Journal Title: Romanian Review of Regional Studies - Year 2008, Vol 4, Issue 1

Abstract

The regional problem is always a present one and regional development that involves the elimination of regional disparities is present as a fashionable phrase, but also as an effective process within the territory of the eight regions of development. These have no juridical status but they work towards a regional development, through the elimination of the intra-regional disparities (among the counties that are part of a region) and the inter-regional ones. The regions of development – formed out of counties – do not have administrative status, nor do they have legislative or executive bodies, but they coordinate projects for regional development. Following their example, the voluntary associations at inferior levels of the regions resulting in the so-called “microregions” are now more and more common. The present study aims to analyze the way this new notion, “microregion”, is understood in Romania, by giving examples of such microregions and their scopes and it also wants to show how these benevolent associations at a microregional level serve the aim of eliminating the regional disparities – in fact, microregional disparities.

Authors and Affiliations

VIOREL PUIU, CRISTINA MITRAN

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VIOREL PUIU, CRISTINA MITRAN (2008). Microregions and the Elimination of the Regional Disparities. Romanian Review of Regional Studies, 4(1), 87-101. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-129592