. This article applies this line of research to regional development policy making and explores the territorial distribution … policy agenda aimed at curbing the high regional disparities which, however, still dramatically persist. By adopting both … socioeconomic criteria and developmental needs ? i.e. the official policy principles ? were central in the allocation of resources …

The influence of general economic and fiscal policy is in recent years more significant than ever. Tight budgets sets … activities usually located in center or metropolitan areas. Based on an analysis of the dominant policy measures used in EU … structural and R&D policy the aim of the current paper is to assess, to what extent they have supported regional convergence, not …

economic policy, as they suggest that cities with a high unemployment rate will be most successful at increasing local … is therefore crucial for the development of regional policy. In short the increased employment in the tradable sector …

-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of a certain size. JapanÂfs local governance policy allocates tax …

government's policy was reactive and was not focused on decreasing interregional inequality during this period. Wages growth …

multiplier is interesting academically, but it is also very useful for policy makers as they need to know the multiplier in the … region they are designing policy for and the multiplier of the jobs they would like to attract. …

between land use, transportation, economy and public policy and has been developed in a joint project between the Institute …