Competitiveness of the Hungarian regions

  • György Enyedi Centre for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs, Hungary

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The present paper explores the competitiveness of the Hungarian counties (NUTS III) and regions (NUTS II) in two dimensions: in national scale and in European comparison. Competitiveness has been expressed by three interrelated economic parameters: a) per capita GDP; b) labor productivity; and c) employment rate.
The paper concludes that regions in Hungary have reached three different stages of economic development. A) Budapest Metropolitan Region (BMR) is a foremost growth pole of the country. It is a real knowledge based and innovation generating economic region. B) North-western Hungary is in the stage of investment led development having a knowledge user economy without generating it locally. C) Northern and Eastern Hungary
is in neo-Fordist stage of economic development, where economic restructuring just started; under-employment and rural crisis are widespread, with an exception of some larger cities. In EU accession countries, BMR is a most competitive region, second only to Prague Agglomeration, whereas Eastern and Northern regions of Hungary have a weak position economically.

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2009-04-05
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EnyediG. (2009). Competitiveness of the Hungarian regions. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 58(1), 33-48. Elérés forrás https://ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/3132
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