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The principle aims of regional policy can be encapsulated in terms of ‘spatial equity’ and ‘economic efficiency’. Establishing the relation between these two aims is of fundamental importance. Conventionally, however, it is assumed that there is a conflict or a ‘trade-off’ between...
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social cohesion scenario displays less effectiveness in fostering convergence processes. These results may drive future …
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Inconsistencies in targeting and forecasting during the process of strategic planning in regions?subjects of Russian federation is atopic of the paper presented. It presents the results of analysis of regional strategies of long-term socio-economic development performed for federal subjects of...
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From regional growth theoretical perspectives, exports represent the important factor with different impact in time and space. The export activities depend in a large share on the way in which a state or a region capitalises their endogenous potential, including the accumulated knowledge and...
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This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity (product per worker), at economic sectors level of the NUTs III of mainland Portugal, from 1995 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2005 (taking in count the data availability and the Portuguese...
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This paper illustrates the story of the Port of Gioia Tauro, a major infrastructure investment co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the period 1994-1998, but whose origin dates back to the beginning of the 1970s. It draws from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the...
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issue of disparities and convergence in levels of living within regions and cities of the Russian Federation (the RF) in the … classification of RF regions and cities and evaluation of disparities and convergence tendencies of levels of living. The analysis of … dynamics of the synthetic indicators of level of living provides evidence for regional convergence of levels of living and a …
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With the enlargements of the European Union in the East in 2004 and 2007, the regional economic disparities increased profoundly and an effort of solidarity between states was necessary. This paper proposes to identify between the explanatory factors at the origin of the uneven distribution of...
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With the enlargements of the European Union in the East in 2004 and 2007, the regional economic disparities increased profoundly and an effort of solidarity between states was necessary. This paper proposes to identify between the explanatory factors at the origin of the uneven distribution of...
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This paper investigates the presence of sigma and beta convergence between the Polish subregions over 1995–2006. We … verify for the absolute convergence, as well as for the convergence conditioned on the stock of physical capital, human … other countries, we observe a sigma divergence and unconditional beta divergence rather than convergence of income across …
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