New Economic Geography (NEG), a new branch of Spatial Economics that was developed at the beginning of the 90s, supports that “peripheral” European Union’s economies (like Portugal, Greece, Ireland or even Spain) are predestined to diverge from the developed European “centers” like...

The issue of rural development may be considered a crucial theme regarding the development of European Union economy. Rural regions account for the big majority of European Union territory having an unquestionable importance in terms of employment, population as well as regarding their...