Convergence across regional economies has spurred one of the most debatable issues in contemporary research in economics. In this paper we seek to address the question of whether, during the period 1995-2004 the NUTS-2 regions of EU-26 exhibited a tendency to converge in terms of agricultural...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Neoclassical and Post-Keynesian Theories of Regional Growth and Convergence/Divergence -- 3 'Endogenous Growth Theory' and 'New Economic Geography' -- 4 Club Convergence -- 5 Empirical Measure of Regional Convergence -- 6 EU-27 Regions: Absolute or Club...