gross regional product (GRP) per capita and wages in Russia over 2005-2011. Such an influence is not found. The federal … result confirms the prediction of neoclassical theory of regional growth and challenges a new economic geography prediction …

Innovation and entrepreneurship are key factors in current regional development initiatives, derived from the concepts …, but will also turn regional economic divergence back on the national economic development agenda. The purpose of this … perspective. The impacts of innovation (measured by innovation scoreboard data) and entrepreneurship (GEM data etc.) on regional …

This paper is to analyze the effect of trade openness on regional inequality of South Korea. Trade has been the driving … the country's regional inequality using several sub-national panel dataset covering between 2003 and 2012. All data set … for the 16 regional units (nine provinces and seven metropolitan cities) are collected from archival materials in Korean …

Regional inequality has increased in Sweden over the past decades, albeit from a low level. While redistribution and … other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to … high regional productivity, namely rail and road connectivity, knowledge-intensive employment and research and education …

international organisations and national/regional authorities. New concepts can be drawn from this comparative analysis: 1) rural …

We discuss regional disparities in economic performance and living standards. We first set out some key facts, and … failures. We examine whether policy attempts to reduce regional disparities necessarily involve a trade-off between equity and …-or, conversely, accept the presence of regional disparities, and instead assist households in lagging regions through transfer …

This study examines the evolution of the regional per capita income from the perspective of a policymaker at the … "regional inequalities aversion" level of the policymaker. In this way, the analysis indicates how the policymakers rank income … certainty equivalents provides a numeric index of preference among regional income distributions according to the policy …

a spatial phenomenon and its understanding without a local/regional dimension is incomplete. …