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The paper shows the need for the development and widespread use of sustainable development indicators for the regions. Drawing on global and Russia's experience, the authors suggest perspective indicators of sustainability for Russian regions and analyze possible approaches to the elaboration of indicators for the regions on the basis of the adaptation of the World Bank adjusted net savings index and the UN Millennium Development Goals. Adequate accounting of indicators, which are currently undervalued or not considered, can lead to the revision of the mediumand long-term goals for regional development.

These regional highlights present some of the key trends in developing countries, drawn from the data presented in World Development Indicators 2012, the World Bank's annual compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people's lives. Charts and short narratives highlight the state and progress of various development topics such as poverty, health, education, the environment, the economy, governance, investment, aid, trade, and capital flows. A global review of progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is presented in the introduction to the world view section of World Development Indicators 2012. The high income economies are the largest emitters of carbon dioxide, but East Asia and the Pacific produces the largest share of global carbon dioxide emissions among developing regions-more than a quarter of total global emissions. As the global economy becomes more integrated, air transport is increasingly important for delivering not only perishable goods such as flowers, but also highly specialized component parts used in transnational production networks. Agriculture is a declining industry in Europe and Central Asia. The share of agriculture in regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell from 19 percent to 7 percent over the last two decades. People in the developing economies of Europe and Central Asia have greater access to commercial bank branches and automated teller machines than people in other developing regions-about 18 commercial bank branches and 45 ATMs per 100,000 adults. Governments and citizens in Latin America and Caribbean spend more on health care as a share of GDP than other developing regions, which is reflected in generally good health outcomes. Poverty is falling in the Latin America and Caribbean, most notably in Brazil-the most populous country in the region. South Asia has the second lowest business start-up costs among developing regions.

Regional development issues play an important role in the policy agenda of the EU countries, including Slovakia. The persistence of regional disparities impedes the ability of a country to promote economic growth and social cohesion, while regional development can be considered as a key determinant of economic development and living-standard improvements. The purpose of the study is to employ different measures of regional disparity in order to empirically analyze the set of chosen socio-economic indicators that provide insights about the current situation in the individual Slovak regions. The study provides a discussion and the assessment of various measurement concepts of regional disparity such as the coefficient of variation, the territorial Gini coefficient, the population weighted coefficient of variation and the Theil index, and employs time-series analysis to assess statistical significance of observed tendencies. The study confirms the negative trends in terms of growing regional development disparities across Slovakia and discusses the determinants of regional disparities in The Slovak Republic, most notably foreign direct investment inflow, demographics and the flow of funds into research and development activities. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.em.18.3.4203

The article presents the results of a study devoted to solving actual problems of implementing the concept of "green" development both at national and regional levels. The indicators of "green" development developed by international organizations are considered as a methodological basis for the creation of systems of monitoring and analyzing the processes of economy "greening", preventing and reducing current negative impact on the environment, increasing the efficiency of resource use in the context of carbon regulation. Assessment of the dynamics of the development of the Voronezh region has been carried out on the basis of selected indicators, and it has been concluded that the regional policy takes into account the necessary prerequisites for "green" growth, which determine the need to increase environmental, economic and social efficiency of activities, increasing the level of waste processing and reduce their producing. ; peer-reviewed

Indonesia is one of the largest archipelagic country in the world, with an area of 1,913,578.67 km2, and consists of 34 provinces, 415 regencies, and 93 cities. Since the end of centralistic governance under Soeharto's administration in 1999, Indonesia has adopted a decentralized governance system to deliver national and regional development. It has been noted that Indonesia has variations in social, economic, ecological, and institutional dimensions between a province to another province in Indonesia. This study aims to analyze the sensitivity of indicator and hierarchy of sustainability of province in Indonesia, using a scalogram method, and analyze the status of sustainable development of the regions, using cluster and flag analysis method. The research shows two most sensitive indicators, the ratio of paved road length to area width and the GDP per capita. Both of these indicators are very effective in increasing the sustainability of provincial development in Indonesia. Of the 33 provinces studied, 24 are at a moderate level of sustainability. Flag analysis showed that the SDG scenario is better than the NC-MEA and the BAU at Region I to III.

World Development Indicators 2014 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help users of all kinds-policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens-find and use data related to all aspects of development, including those that help monitor and understand progress toward the two goals. Six themes are used to organize indicators-world view, people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global links. As in past editions, World view reviews global progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and provides key indicators related to poverty. A complementary online data analysis tool is available this year to allow readers to further investigate global, regional, and country progress on the MDGs: http://data.worldbank.org/mdgs. Each of the remaining sections includes an introduction; six stories highlighting specific global, regional or country trends; and a table of the most relevant and popular indicators for that theme, together with a discussion of indicator compilation methodology.

International audience ; The regional government of the Flemish region is responsible for the environmental legislation within Belgium and reports the impact of environmental burdens since 2003 to support environmental policy. The Ghent university is providing and structuring the indicators for the noise discipline since that time. The underlying data and the quality of the models has evolved through time but in general, the time series of the indicators are very stable. In an-ongoing project, the sensitivity and spatial resolution of the indicators is evaluated and improvements are proposed to achieve even better policy support. In this manuscript, the results of this evaluation will be presented. The focus is on defining indicators with a region-wide coverage and sensitive to the potential effects of the legislation affecting all types of noise exposure. The goals of the project are manifold: (1) SWOT-analysis identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats; (2) potential developments in available data are identified to improve sensitivity; (3) technological options are identified to move from simulated to measured indicators; (4) modifications of the existing indicators are proposed when relevant. The technological developments on low-cost noise monitoring have a huge potential. The large-scale implementation of measurement based indicators for regional and local policy support is under evaluation. Actual implementation will require the alignment of priorities and budgets across different governmental departments.

This report examines both the challenges and the opportunities associated with designing and using indicator systems as a tool for the governance of regional development policy. It draws on the experiences of a number of OECD countries and provides an in-depth look at the cases of Italy, the United Kingdom (England), the United States and the European Union. It builds on previous OECD work on the governance of regional development policy by extending lessons about contractual relations among levels of government to performance indicator systems.

A new look and new ways to access the world's premier source of development dataLooking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. Compiled from officially-recognized international sources, WDI presents the most current and accurate global development data available, including national, regional and global estimates.This year's print edition and e-book have been redesigned to allow users the convenience of easily linking to the latest data on-line.What you will find in the print edition:A selection of the most popular indicators across 214 economies and 14 country groups organized into six WDI themesThematic and regional highlights, providing an overview of global development trendsAn in-depth review of the progress made toward achieving the Millennium Development GoalsA user guide describing resources available on-line and on mobile appsWhat you can do on-line:Download individual tables and other key informationAccess and download time series data using the data retrieval systemAccess indicators in five different languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, English, and Spanish)Directly obtain the the most up-to-date data available.The WDI Little Data Book 2013 is a companion to the WDI, and is a handy country-by-country view of key development indicators for more than 200 countries. Each page provides a country data profile of of its people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global links.. ACCESS WDI TIME SERIES DATA FREE ONLINE = data.worldbank.org (the full data retrieval system organized by indicator, country and topic); and data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators (for all on-line WDI resources)DOWNLOAD THE WDI DATAFINDER MOBILE APP AND OTHERS = data.worldbank.org/appsWDI DataFinder is a mobile app

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Are there significant regional differences in regional retail development in Serbia? This was the main research question at the beginning of writing this paper. The main goal of this paper was to analyse regional differences in retail development based on existing statistical data. The idea was to point out regions with underdeveloped retailing and the one with endangered retail competition. Thorough desk research has been performed. It included both literature review and data collection from available official sources. Existing retail data have been analysed. However, the lack of data at lower levels of aggregation (regional and local) prevents the authors from getting strong conclusions. In addition, the lack of data also altered the main research question, which has now become adequacy of data in the retail sector and potential solutions for that problem. The noted lack of crucial data and solutions for solving this problem were the main purpose of this paper. The main finding is that decision makers in Serbia do not have adequate information about retail network. This is a problem because it is very hard to prove anticompetitive actions or to plan (stimulate) retail development without relevant data from both government and business point of view. Retail census would help getting key indicators about development of retailing in certain regions and municipalities. However, the solution needs to be sustainable. Therefore, some legislative requirements should provide information for census update.