Notes on regional development policies

Abstract

the regional and spatial dimension of development planning must be taken as a point of departure to the mutual of the spatial structure of the economy , development strategy and policies applied 'therein such as the location principles and regional development coordination of the territorial problems with the national development planning and timing of regional vis-a-vis national development plan_. Certain balance and integration is of sound necessity' between national _regional and local development objectives through which the national development strategy should have to represent the guidelines of the local development aspirations and goals. The economic development exerts an impact on the spatial evolution, being itself subject to influence by the spatial socio- economic structures. The regional planning is not an end by itself, rather it is a factor for arranging to realize certain opinions or concepts more successfully. therefore, it is a basis for decision -making and policies to carry_ out the plans and programmers With a region adequately delineated, the organization and procedures could be planned for that specific - region and its problems , i e….., 'study must be directed ,in particular, towards the examination of economic ,social, geographic physical, geological hydro geological and many other factors. Hence , regionalism emphasizes the deep significance of the regional factors in national planning and development. The decentralization have to be accompanied with effective integrated planning at the national level and by measures and criteria where by regional plans may be satisfactorily integrated into the national policies. The regional policy is a trend of the economic, social and physical factors of production for higher economic growth and social development. Meanwhile to ensure the shaping of rational interregional proportions of the industrial location and in turn the per capita income among regions. The regional policy is integrally connected with the policy of the distribution of productive forces through investment as a factor of changes in the geographical distribution_ of output and development expressed by the changes of the location of output capacities and Tile changes of the location of industries. The structure of the regions is subject to changes due to different reasons such as changes in the level of employment, changes in  the efficiency of labour and changes in the programmes of production.