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How to Cope with Declining Small Urban Centres? - The Finnish Regional Centre Programme in perspective

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  • Tatu Hirvonen

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The severe depression which Finland suffered in the early 1990´s as well as the subsequent economic developments saw Finland faced not only with high unemployment and rising income disparities but also with deepening regional imbalance. As a handful of larger cities grew, many others either coped or declined altogether. In 2000 the Finnish government launched the Regional Centre Programme (RCP). Through the development of a regional network of different sized growth centres based on their particular strengths, expertise and specialization, the original purpose of the programme was not only to find new sources of economic growth but to find ways of spreading growth more evenly across regions without hindering the overall development. The aim of this paper is to assess the development trail which led to the emergence of the RCP as well as to study RCP´s role in assisting the development of small urban centres during its first three years of existence. Keywords: Regional development, Regional Centre Policy, Finland

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  • Tatu Hirvonen, 2004. "How to Cope with Declining Small Urban Centres? - The Finnish Regional Centre Programme in perspective," ERSA conference papers ersa04p240, European Regional Science Association.
  • Handle: RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa04p240
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