Distinctive Development Trajectories of the Hungarian Border Areas after the Millennium

Pénzes, János and Czimre, Klára and Papp, István (2024) Distinctive Development Trajectories of the Hungarian Border Areas after the Millennium. EUROLIMES, 33-34. ISSN 1841-9259 (In Press)

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Abstract

Border areas are often described as peripheries not only in a geographical sense but in economic contexts as well. The current study focuses on the Hungarian border areas and provides different territorial approaches to delimit the influenced set of settlements. Different sections of the border area are delineated by defining GIS-based buffer zones along the state border. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is a generally applied indicator to detect the economic processes of selected territories. However, their official publication needs to be more detailed from a territorial point of view. The current study is based on the disaggregation of GDP values (called as the economic power of settlements) to the LAU 2 level between 2000 and 2021. The analyses of these datasets highlight the decreasing trend of relative economic power in the most developed sections of the border areas (Austrian and Wester-Slovakian sections) which was accelerated by the global financial crisis in 2008–2009. Long-term stagnation can be observed at other border sections (except for the Serbian section, which also represented a decreasing trend). The results drew attention to the critical role and the increasing influence of cross-border employment due to foreign tax registration partly distorting the Hungarian income datasets. Despite these methodological uncertainties, the tendencies observed are relevant for the decades after the Millennium.

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