Youth and the Regional Future in SEE. Are We Ready to Meet the Challenge?

Veselina Lyubomirova; Georgi Nikolov; Georgi Tsolov

doi:10.37075/YB.2021.2.09

Authors

Assist. Prof. Dr Veselina Lyubomirova Department of Regional Development, Faculty of Management and Administration, UNWE Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1752-1975
Assoc. Prof. Dr Georgi Nikolov Department of Regional Development, Faculty of Management and Administration, UNWE Author
Chief Assist. Prof. Dr Georgi Tsolov Department of Regional Development, Faculty of Management and Administration, UNWE Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37075/YB.2021.2.09

Keywords:

Youth, Youth policy, Regions, Regional resilience

E24, J17

Abstract

The paper outlines the youth profile in four SEE countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Slovenia by indicators that impact regional growth and resilience challenges. It contains an overview of the literature that relates growth, regional resilience and youth. The idea is to identify some directions to how youth, with their current vision for values and participation, can shape the socio-economic life of a region. The authors are using secondary data from previous research of Friedrich Ebert Foundation to interpret the youngsters' profiles via regional development perspective and socioeconomic significance.

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