The objective of this paper is to provide a spatial distribution of creative economy in European Union, in 2011. For this purpose, we measure creative economy by proposing a five dimensions index. The results are displayed in the Creative Economy Map of EU. The further discussions highlight the...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the structural change effects or labor reallocation effects on the regional disparity in productivity growth in India and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paper uses secondary data at the state level in India and provinces in the...

East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since...

Given that India's urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account for only 31% of the country's population, they have been rightly called the engines of India's growth. In this paper, I answer the following questions: What are the economic...

This paper summarizes and expands the state-of-the-art understanding of the urbanization, development, environment, and inequality nexus. Economic growth/development, urbanization, and energy/electricity consumption are all highly correlated. While urbanization may be more evidence of economic...

The potential effects of high-speed rail (HSR) reach into many overlapping fields of interest. This paper summarizes the evolution of HSR and elaborates on the development effects of the HSR transport infrastructure. HSR can simultaneously become a core component of desired urban developments,...

Sustainable approach to city development refers to maximizing the products added value, services created in/by communities and obtaining the synergic effect of: increasing economic competitiveness (technological but especially increasing the professionalism and active human resource attitude on...

The purpose of this paper is to present methods of analysing local stakeholders and the development of a matrix to identify potential results of this group’s activity, transposed in the local development document – “Local Strategy for Sustainable Development”. It establishes both the...

The subject considered (e.g. dividing a country into a developed center and a periphery underdeveloped) was the subject of early researches in regional development. This paper aims to present the studies from the literature undertaken in the domain of a center-periphery structure. In the first...

This paper aims to analyze the degree of spatial peripherality of Romanian counties, at European level. Thus, in a first stage, are classified the indicators which measure the accessibility (spatial peripherality).Then, are selected four accessibility indicators. In the second part of the paper...