Continuity of Demarcation Process of the Regions for Concentrated State Support

Abstract

The paper analyses the continuity of the demarcation process of Czech regions for the state support. This support aims to reduce negative disparities among the regions. The process of demarcation of the region includes criteria as an unemployment rate, number of applicants per one job vacancy, income tax rate, number of private entrepreneurs and purchasing power. These criteria and weights of these criteria have been changed during the last 20 years.The main aim of this paper is the analysis of the criteria set and the criteria weights modification during the years 1991 – 2010 and the examination of the modification of values of the criteria weights using two different methods - Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Network Process. These methods are used for synthesis of the criteria weights, which shows the continuity of the region demarcation process during its modification in time.