of funds to the regions undermines the principle of territorial concentration. The empirical analysis shows that, due to … recommended in order to increase fund concentration and earmark resources more adequately to disadvantaged regions. …

This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … and technology. Indian innovation hubs also generate positive knowledge spillovers to other regions. …

conducted for all regions of the group of 25 European Union countries (EU-25), including measures of R&D investment, proxies for …

global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and …

peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution, not simple patterns of convergence or divergence. The theo- retical problems …

hindered convergence among the countries of the Eurozone. On the one hand, there is wide agreement on the fact that asymmetric … support for convergence is fading away after the EMU was initiated in 1999. A process of divergence in per capita GDP is … underway, in contrast with the substantial progress that has taken place during the nineties. Regional convergence is also …

productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …