Abstract:
Regionalism is generally understood as a dual meaning notion: regionalism is understood as an downward and upward move. Both notions depict changes at a regional level, being interdependent, the only one difference being the fact that regionalism grasped in political exposures leads to federalization (a space system consisting of unifying autonomous states with similar cultural and historical background into a unique state organization) and regionalism represents an administrative process which defines new administrative-territorial units with the purpose of establishing cooperation zones. According to some theories, regional development represents the potential of the regions to produce and sell goods and services, and implicitly the potential of the population to earn income. Regional development imbalances consist regional disparities regarding their capacity to provide the opportunity to generate income for the population. According to other paradigms, regional development represents using your own resources and those drawn from the national and international system, to expand competitiveness, increase the adjustment of elements to meet the needs of regional / national and at a macroeconomic point of view, for reducing disparities between the various elements of the national economy.
