Ideas and Suggestions for Human Development Issues Included in the Regional Development Concept of Baranya County

Abstract

Regional and territorial characteristics have a major role in the evolvement of different disadvantages. In certain regional, territorial units or in towns and villages segregated areas may occur where multiple social and economic disadvantages are present and also various groups of people affected by those disadvantages.
The publication called ’Területi Agenda 2020’ (Territorial Agenda 2020) reflects the emphasis on regional principle. Regional cohesion applies the integrated objectives and methods of different policies in a complex way for the development of certain regions, areas, towns or villages.
The so-called location-based policy aims to unify the ’location-based’ and ’person-based’ approaches by means of open method of coordination and in cohesion policy to reduce poverty and segregation.
The long-term development programmes of Baranya county should primarily support interventions that concentrate on knowledge-based economy, human and technological innovation, as well as the related human resource development. This way the county could close up to European and Hungarian trends and tendencies of development in the next period of time.
Today it would be essential to develop and implement a new, complex mixture of policies, which regards different policies as socially and economically productive factors and aims to strengthen them in this function. The new approach declares that expenses paid on preserving and improving the health condition of people, on improving social and housing conditions, on creating new employment oppportunities and on human resource development (education, training, retraining, development of skills and abilities) can be regarded as investments into human resources. These investments affect positively the individuals, the society and the economy. Based on several researches in social economy we can assert that there is positive correlation between the above mentioned investments and the productivity of the countries that made these investments.