2000년대 지역 간 성장격차

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As the era of low growth begins, regional problems are entering a new phase. This paper tries to analyze trends and patterns of regional growth in the 2000s and find out the structural dimensions of regional inequality. The results of research can be summarized as the following.
Regional growth in the 2000s can be characterized by population concentration in the metropolitan area, especially in the Gyeonggi area. The pattern of regional growth was differentiated into three-high growth group, middle growth group, and low growth group. As the growth disparities between high growth and low growth group has consistently expanded, human resources for regional development have been depleted most rapidly in some non-metropolitan areas. In particular, this paper argues that distribution factors as well as production ones have had critical impacts as the main factors on regional disparities in growth. The polarization of growth between regional groups, the coupling trend toward reverse direction, and the instability of regional growth have increased in the process of regional growth. The triggering point of widening regional disparities in growth was 2010 due to the global financial crisis, and regions were divided into 7 cells(equivalent classes) according to the growth path of population and income. The structure of regional disparities in growth has been reproduced by two structures: ‘the trend and stability of regional growth’ and ‘production and distribution’.
Studies on regional disparities, which have been studied from the economic perspective, have tended to interpret regional disparities in growth as problems of distribution in the amount of locational requirements. However, the regional growth disparities are not simply a problem of uneven distribution of population and income but a structural problem of relational inequality.