Cet article se propose de mesurer le niveau de développement humain des régions marocaines en utilisant, pour la première fois, la méthodologie de l’Indice de Développement Humain révisée en 2010. De forts écarts de développement humain entre les régions marocaines sont mis en...

In this paper we try to investigate the effect of the Structural Funds on regional development and the economic and social disparities within the EU. The year 1988, with the first main reform of the Structural Funds, is taken as the starting point of our research that covers the past thirteen...

This study analyzes information technology embodied in the stock of capital. A panel dataset is constructed for the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, covering 52 industry categories from 1977 through 1997. The data come from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. This dataset is separately...

The main issue in this paper is cities’ size distribution and urban hierarchy. The aim of the paper is to study whether different regions or countries follow Zipf's law in the long term. By applying this analysis on the Balkan Peninsula, a region which has gone through a major political,...

This paper analyses the role of tertiary activities in regional inequality in Brazil, considering both concentration and per capita income inequality. The estimated indicators reveal that for the most sophisticated sub-sectors, the richer regions are not only above average in terms of...

This article analyses the evolution experienced by research in urban and regional science in France between 1991 and 2000, comparing these changes with wider international trends. Nine of the leading international journals of regional and urban studies were used in drawing up rankings of...

This paper applies a rank-size model on panel data. By introducing the spatial dimension of data, it aims in taking into account spatial autocorrelation effects on the Zipf law. We apply Debarsy and Ertur (2010) methodology in order to choose the best specification between three alternative...

While an enormous and growing literature exists on the topic of re-gional income convergence, other aspects of socioeconomic well-being and development have attracted much less attention. Social indicators are a valuable complement to economic indicators when analyzing spatial patterns in a...

The aim of this paper is to study the evolution of urban hierarchies and the nature of urban growth processes in Greece from 1951 to 2011 using data provided by the Greek Statistical Authority. The paper delivers three series of results: firstly, when using an administrative definition of the...