OECD Regional Outlook 2014
Regions and Cities: Where Policies and People Meet
Regions and cities are on the front lines of many challenges faced by OECD countries today, from education and jobs to health care and quality of life. Getting regions and cities “right”, adapting policies to the specificities of where people live and work, is vital to improving citizens’ well-being. This second edition of the OECD Regional Outlook aims to help countries do just that. Part I describes the main trends and challenges today. Part II has a special focus on cities, looking at public investment, urban framework policies, and rural-urban issues. Part III presents a Policy Forum on the future of cities, with five contributions from distinguished authors and policy makers. Part IV offers profiles of regional development in all 34 OECD countries.
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Slovenia
Low inter-regional disparities are partly the result of long-standing policies aimed at ensuring polycentric and balanced regional development. While the recent crisis hit Slovenia hard, its aggregate impact on labour markets has been in line with the OECD average. However, it was geographically quite concentrated: more than half of job losses (60%) occurred in only 2 of Slovenia’s 12 regions.
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