Convergence of the Slovak Republic Regions

The issue of regional disparities regarding their measurement and detection of regional competitiveness in the Slovak Republic has become an important topic in relation to process of economic transformation which also included European Union accession. The main aim of the paper is a contribution to the examination of convergence among regions in the Slovak Republic using different approaches and methodologies. To measure of convergence are selected data in years 2001, 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2012 (or 2010). Those years are selected with respect to the period of pre-accession negotiations with the EU, period of the EU accession, launching the currency - EURO and the last reporting period in the registers of the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. Following indicators will be analyzed: GDP, net money income of private households, number of enterprises, unemployment, employment, educational institutions infrastructure and expenditure on R&D. In this paper we use the application of the Gini coefficient, Coefficient of variation and Sigma convergence.