Preface

Abstract

Our Journal has now entered its seven year, with the present first issue comprising papers on the comparison of the socio economic situations in the regions of the Southern Hungarian Plain and Northern Hungary.

In addition, our intention is to present a selection of the works written as the result of the research work in the intellectual workshops of regional disciplines attached to these two regions (University of Szeged, Institute of Economics and Economic Development, and University of Miskolc, Institute of Global and Regional Economics).

Beyond the similarities (high rate of unemployment, low activity, lower than national average income relations, etc.) and differences (different economic structures, different soil and land potentials, etc.), the comparison is given a particular topicality by the fact that both regions are searching intensely for the way out in ways partly identical and partly different.

Both intellectual workshops are committed to play their roles in those efforts.