The Structural Funds (SF), are the most important strategic tool of the European Union (EU) for the promotion of regional development. This chapter analyzes the effects of regionally targeted SF on labor productivity growth in 180 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, level 2 (NUTS2)...

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some formal approaches to the hard problem of regional economics; namely, the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

This chapter analyses the dynamics of regional disparities in the member states that joined the European Union in or after 2004, excluding Cyprus and Malta (EU11). The analysis shows that while differences between countries have been shrinking, regional disparities in GDP per capita and...