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Special Economic Zones - 20 years later
Jensen, Camilla; Winiarczyk, Marcin winiarczyk - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2014
In this paper we undertake an ex-post evaluation of whether the special economic zones (SEZs) introduced in Poland in … (nuts4 or something similar to a commune) and gmina (nuts5 or something similar to a village) levels in Poland during the … results indicate that SEZs in Poland have been successful in a number of their objectives such as private business creation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741233
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Regional Inequality and Convergence in Europe, 1995-2005
Melchior, Arne - 2009
The paper presents new results on within-country regional inequality in per capita income for 36 countries during 1995-2005; focusing on Europe but with some non-European countries included for comparison. In 23 of the 36 countries there was a significant increase in regional inequality during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160415
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Effects of the EU-Enlargement on Income Convergence in the Eastern Border Regions
Wilhelmsson, Fredrik - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of the EU enlargement process on income convergence among regions in the EU and in the Eastern neighborhood of the EU. The data used is NUTS II regions in the EU and Oblasts' of Russia over the period 1996-2004. The estimation techniques used take into account both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718027
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European Integration and Domestic Regions: A Numerical Simulation Analysis
Melchior, Arne - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009
Does European economic integration create more inequality between domestic regions, or is the opposite true? We show that a general answer to this question does not exist, and that the outcome depends on the liberalisation scenario. In order to examine the impact of European and international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632998
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Regional Inequality and Convergence in Europe, 1995-2005
Melchior, Arne - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2008
The paper presents new results on within-country regional inequality in per capita income for 36 countries during 1995-2005; focusing on Europe but with some non-European countries included for comparison. In 23 of the 36 countries there was a significant increase in regional inequality during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633082
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Effects of the EU-Enlargement on Income Convergence in the Eastern Border Regions
Wilhelmsson, Fredrik - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009
This paper analyses the effect of the EU enlargement process on income convergence among regions in the EU and in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU. The data used is NUTS II regions in the EU and Oblasts' of Russia over the period 1996-2004. The estimation techniques used take into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633104
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East-West Integration and the Economic Geography of Europe
Melchior, Arne - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009
Implementation of the European internal market and East-West integration has been accompanied by dramatic change in the spatial distribution of economic activity, with higher growth west and east of a longitude degree through Germany and Italy. In the east, income growth has been accompanied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633141
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Agriculture Income Assessment for the Purpose of Social Assistance : The Case of Ukraine
Pietka, Katarzyna; Boyarchuk, Dmytro; Sinitsina, Irina; … - 2014
, and Poland. A review of different means testing methods, including direct means testing and proxy means testing, served as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198404
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East-West Integration and the Economic Geography of Europe
Melchior, Arne - 2009
Implementation of the European internal market and East-West integration has been accompanied by a dramatic change in the spatial distribution of economic activity, with higher growth west and east of a longitude degree through Germany and Italy. In the east, income growth has been accompanied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208689
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Agriculture Income Assessment for the Purpose of Social Assistance: the Case of Ukraine
Boyarchuk, Dmytro; Kotusenko, Liudmyla; … - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009
, and Poland. A review of different means testing methods, including direct means testing and proxy means testing, served as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542560