Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

The Swedish system for inter-regional redistribution is examined from a political economy perspective and a growth perspective. A number of recent Swedish studies of this system are examined. Political economy concerns are found to be adequately represented in academic studies of this system,...

Conventionally, it is presumed that restructuring of industrial composition of employment only modestly affects the average wage. This is because in a partial equilibrium setting such a restructuring affects the calculation of the average wage only through changes in employment shares of...

In this paper it has been analysed whether and how the Agency for Territorial Cohesion, just recently established and intended to replace the Department for Development and Cohesion Policies, can fit in the complex system of multilevel governance envisaged as per the Community rules for the...

Cross-border cooperation exists in Europe since 1960, but it really started developing during the 1980 with the elaboration of the European outline convention of May 21st 1980 on transfrontier co-operation between territorial communities or authorities (Madrid convention), which was ratified by...

This paper examines the design of the fiscal 'equalisation', or 'balancing', arrangements introduced in Indonesia in 2001, when many functions were devolved from the central to regional governments. This new and needlessly complex system of fiscal transfers was introduced hurriedly, and lacked...

Science, technology and innovation (STI) is still on of the most important area through which a region or a country may enhance its competitiveness and hence its welfare. However in order to respond the challenge of global economy we must optimize the interrelations between institutional and...

This paper describes the need to develop the innovative and competitive abilities of the CAE (Autonomous Community of the Basque Country) by increasing the efficiency of interactions among different economic agents. This case gives details of the set interactions in the different ways of...

The paper introduces the concepts regional complexity and engaged governance. Regional complexity is a situation where there is a conflict of interest between different regional actors. It is a situation where there is no clear answer of how this conflict can be solved. It is also a situation...

This article carries out a diagnostic of two particular experiences that affect the model of territorial governance of the Basque country in light of the social innovation paradigm to deduce a series of critical reflections about its development. We study the path of the Basque innovation agency...