This report is concerned with analysing, for eight EU Member States with lagging regions, the main structural reforms carried out over the past five to ten years, essentially those which are relevant for the European Structural and Investment Funds. Furthermore it provides an overview of the...

This report presents the findings of three case studies of lagging regions in the EU to deepen the findings of wiiw Research Reports 421 to 423. The three (NUTS 2) case study regions are the Italian Campania, the Portuguese Norte and the Romanian Nord-Est region. While each of these regions...

The focus of the study is the economic challenges of lagging regions in the EU-28. In this respect, regions - in general - are defined according to the NUTS2 level of regions. As far as lagging regions are concerned, there are two specific types: Low growth regions, i.e. those NUTS2 regions that...