Regional inequality in Serbia as a development problem

Dragana Miljanović; Radmila Miletić; Jasmina Đorđević

doi:10.3986/AGS50204

Authors

Dragana Miljanović
Radmila Miletić
Jasmina Đorđević

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS50204

Keywords:

Serbia, regional policy, territorial inequality, transition, undeveloped areas, devastated areas

Abstract

The aim of this paper, in the context of the contemporary socio-economic changes in Serbia, is to consider changes in the regional development policy, and therefore in the approach to underdeveloped areas. A special attention is paid to regional inequality as a developmental problem since it directly influences the integrative processes, violating them, and therefore leads to side effects (economic, social, demographic, ecological, spatial, etc.). In Serbia, traditionally undeveloped areas (rural, hilly-mountainous and border/peripheral) have formed during a longer historical period, contrary to the new types of areas - municipalities (“devastated areas”) that are connected to the transition period (“transition poverty”). Both appeared by cause and effect reaction to natural, socio-economic, social, demographic, cultural-civilizational and political factors.

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