The first phase of the research included the surveying and demonstrating of models and methods for measuring competitiveness.

We have elaborated a system of indices for gauging the development level of enfrastructure in the regions and major settlements. The examination embraces the 19 counties of Hungary and the 9 cities with inhabitants more than 100,000. Data gained of the county and city levels are being aggregated on the level of the country's seven planning and statistical regions each. Beside some about 50 macroeconomic indicators, in the field of infrastructure and services (transport, informatics and telecommunications, healt care and medical equipment, housing, environmental features, education and culture, trade and tourism) approximately 120 indicators are being collected and processed for two years (1990-2000-2001) so as to unveil changes in regional development level.

By applying this great number of indicators, most of them natural (and with the help of a tried and tested method of synthesis), a multi-segmented regional investigation canalso be carried out. This examination will involve such a new approach in revealing regional differences which investigates the causes of disparities and their change over time in groupings, according to the technological or social features of infrastructure. Furthermore, the indicators used in examining the counties and the major cities will render it possible to expose the differences within the regions, and between Budapest and the bigger settlements as well.

Determining the changes that took place in the last decade may immediately be utilized in mitigating Hungarian regional disparities of infrastructural development level and obtaining EU funds already accessible for this purpose.

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