Abstract
Demographic challenges of regional development of Poland. The goals of the
article are dichotomous. First of all, it is the recognition of the main problems of regional
development in Poland, resulting from the current and forecast demographic and settlement
situation, including depopulation and population aging. An increasing mismatch between
jobs, housing, education and services, increasingly scattered and inefficient settlement and
inefficiency of the administrative and territorial system in terms of income and expenditure
balancing and ensuring an adequate standard of services resulting from the administrative hierarchization
of the settlement network, territorial delimitation and spatial accessibility have
been identified. Then, in the second place, an attempt was made to formulate remedial measures
related mainly to the optimization of spatial development and stimulation of innovative
economic growth based in particular on endogenous poles of growth. In the article, among
others the results of the author’s research and analyzes were used, which were carried out for
practical purposes for government diagnostic and strategic documents in the years 2000–2017
[incl. “Report of the spatial development of Poland”, “Concept of Spatial Development of Poland
2030”, “National Strategy for Regional Development 2010–2020”, delimitation of “State
Intervention Strategic Areas: Growth Areas and Problem Areas” and “Responsible Development
Strategy”].
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