After outlining the overall scale and evolution of European Union (EU) public expenditure, this paper examines the mechanisms driving the allocation of Cohesion Policy resources. The analysis reveals the extent to which the outcome of the policy's principle- and formula-driven allocation...

1. Chinese economic development and its social and institutional foundations / Michael Dunford -- 2. Governance, politics and culture / Weidong Liu -- 3. Regional disparities / Hui Liu -- 4. Transformation of rural China / Yansui Liu and Hualou Long -- 5. Changing geography of manufacturing /...

DUNFORD M. (1996) Disparities in employment, productivity and output in the EU: the roles of labour market governance and welfare regimes, Reg. Studies 30, 339-357. The aim of this paper is to develop a set of empirical and theoretical connections between geographies of inequality on the one...