OECD Territorial Reviews
Subtitle: Hungary 2001
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD Territorial Reviews; OECD territorial reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9789264195509
Subjects: Governance; Rural and Regional Development Urban
Description: OECD's territorial review of Hungary. It finds that ater a period of decline Hungary has returned on a satisfactory growth track. However, benefit and cost have not been evenly distributed during the transition. This report points to the persisting disparities between the West and the East, the capital and the periphery and urban and rural areas. It analyses numerous spatial, economic and social issues including transportation priorities, clustering of regional capacities, cross-border co-operation, the links between foreign investment and endogenous activities and social policies decentralisation. The review emphasizes the need to better articulate the territorial policy framework with those of the EU and proposes recommendations in order to streamline the institutional system and reinforce the subnational levels.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Assessment and Recommendations; title: Chapter 1. Transition and Territorial Disparities; title: -Macroeconomic Situation; title: Economic Trends and Empirical Evidence of Spatial Disparities; title: Some Factors Explaining the New Pattern of Territorial Disparities; title: Main Consequences of Economic Trends on Social Cohesion; title: Principle Forms of Spatial Disparities; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 2. Spatial Policies; title: -Reducing the Gap in Transport and Communications Infrastructures; title: Enhancing Regional Environmental Quality and Decentralising Responsibilities; title: Urban and Rural Aspects; title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Chapter 3. Economic Development Policies; title: -Spatial Redistribution versus Regional Competitiveness; title: Development Based on Exogenous Investments; title: Development Policies Based on Endogenous Investments; title: Challenges Linking the Foreign and Domestic Sectors; title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Chapter 4. Social Policies; title: -Living Conditions and Quality of Life; title: Social Welfare Policies; title: Education and Employment Policies; title: The Roma Minority: A Special Case; title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Chapter 5. Institutional Reform, Regional Policy, and Fiscal Decentralisation; title: -The Framework of Hungarian Territorial Governance; title: Regional Policy Framework; title: Decentralisation and Regional Policy in Hungary: An Uneven Evolution; title: Fiscal Federalism and Territorial Development: An Advanced,but Unfinished Agenda; title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Chapter 6. Hungarian Regional Policy and EU Accession; title: PHARE Framework and Pre-Accession Context; title: EU Compatibility; title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Chapter 7. Budapest: Governance in a Politically Fragmented Area; title: -Agglomeration Growth and Suburbanisation; title: Intra-City Administrative Fragmentation; title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography