It was a great surprise to both the Hungarian and the international research community to see how determined and successful were the 2nd and the 3d Orbán-governments in rolling back the results of the post-communist privatizations. In my earlier papers - see Mihályi (2014, 2015a,b) - I showed...

It was a great surprise to both the Hungarian and the international research community to see how determined and successful were the 2nd and the 3d Orbán-governments in rolling back the results of the post-communist privatizations. In my earlier papers – see Mihályi (2014, 2015a,b) – I...

Hungarian Abstract: A humanitárius problémaként induló menekültválság mára Európa-szerte biztonságpolitikai kérdéssé alakult. A migrációs válságot egy sor populista politikai hang nemcsak az egyes országok létét fenyegető, de az egész kontinenst és az Európai Unió...

This paper carries out an explanatory investigation into the relationship between socio-institutional conditions, quality of life indicators and economic growth in the Italian regions. Previous studies stress the importance of institutional quality, social capital and social conditions in...

Tanulmányomban a gazdasági növekedés három különbözõ modelljét vizsgálom. Mindhárom a magasan aggregált modellek dezaggregálásának irányába mutat, ez az irány azonban az egyes modellek esetében eltérõ. Ennek ellenére mindhárom modellben megjelennek a növekedési...

The paper surveys the main trends of per capita income convergence in the European Union. It stresses that income disparities have ceased to diminish across the European regions since 1980, although convergence between countries has continued in this period. Income levels have diverged inside...

This paper presents four case-studies of economies with developed regional policies; the European Union, Spain, Italy and Brazil. These cases have been chosen due to their relevance when studying regional problems in Colombia. Regional policy has performed relatively poorly in all cases since...

This article considers the relationship between centralised, exogenous institutions and the embedded, endogenous institutions of rural governance in Europe through an examination of the evaluation procedures of the European LEADER programme. LEADER is presented in the literature as progressive...

The fundamental principles of the EU LEADER Programme are common in every member states. However the Programme was fit to the national legislative framework, institutional culture and social features, thus it was implemented with significant differences in the different EU countries/regions. Our...