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An Index of Social and Economic Development in the Community's Objective-1 Regions of Countries in Southern Europe

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  • José Antonio Rodríguez Martín
  • María Del Mar Holgado Molina
  • José Antonio Salinas Fernández

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In this article we calculate an indicator of social and economic development using the DP 2 distance method to measure the disparities in Objective-1 regions of southern European countries for 2006. In addition to per capita income, socio-economic components such as health, education, employment, scientific and technological development and infrastructure provision have been incorporated into the index. We examine the issue of whether the Europe Union regions included in the Convergence Objective achieved a lower level of development than the regions no longer covered in this objective for the 2007--2013 programming period by establishing a territorial classification based on the value yielded by the variables of the DP 2 . Our indicator constitutes a novel contribution insofar as it was constructed using a large number of variables. In essence, we show that not all the regions of the Convergence Objective presented a lower level of economic and social development than those that lost this consideration between 2007 and 2013 and the opposite.

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  • José Antonio Rodríguez Martín & María Del Mar Holgado Molina & José Antonio Salinas Fernández, 2012. "An Index of Social and Economic Development in the Community's Objective-1 Regions of Countries in Southern Europe," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(6), pages 1059-1074, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:20:y:2012:i:6:p:1059-1074
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.673571
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    1. Piotr Pachura, 2010. "Regional Disparities in EU," Contributions to Economics, in: Regional Cohesion, chapter 0, pages 49-64, Springer.
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    2. Iván Boal-San Miguel & Luis César Herrero-Prieto, 2020. "Reliability of Creative Composite Indicators with Territorial Specification in the EU," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-27, April.
    3. Noelia Somarriba Arechavala & Pilar Zarzosa Espina & Bernardo Pena Trapero, 2015. "The Economic Crisis and its Effects on the Quality of Life in the European Union," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 120(2), pages 323-343, January.
    4. Małgorzata Stec & Mariola Grzebyk, 2018. "The implementation of the Strategy Europe 2020 objectives in European Union countries: the concept analysis and statistical evaluation," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 52(1), pages 119-133, January.

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