After having experienced a period of steady economic and demographic growth in the 1960s, the Canton of Neuchatel was very severely hit by the crisis of 1975 and subsequently by that of 1982. Industrial activity suffered the consequences of these two successive recessions, in particular in...

The main objective of regional policy is to reduce regional differences. The means by which this objective is reached have changed considerably. In this paper, four generations of regional policy are discussed. The first generation, dating back to the beginning of the sixties and a time of...