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Economic Aspects of Regionalism in Croatia

Regionalism is a highly topical issue all over the World and represents a new approach in which regions of a country are recognized as subjects and an optimum entity of the societal organization. The study of regionalism, regional policy and the regional finances of any country cannot be understood without taking into consideration what the regions actually represent and what is the role of regional authorities within the national system of government. There are several reasons for Croatia's regionalism and its administrative divisions. First, geography itself has devided Croatia into three very different regions: the continental, the mountainous, and the costal. Second, through regionalization by functional principle Croatia is divided in four macro-regions and several smaller ones. Third, through regionalization by administrative principle Croatia is divided in twenty-one counties. Fourth, fiscal decentralization - refers to the amount of fiscal autonomy and responsibility given to sub-national levels of government. There are several economic indicators that measure and compare regions: size of a particular county, population density and structure with regard to age, education and lobor force, structure of the employed per activity, level of production and income, structure of consumption, structure of the local budget, and the level of the county's own resources to finance public needs and development. In respect to economic indicators there are differences among regions in Croatia.

Regionalism; Croatia; Regional Finance

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