In Deutschland gibt es beträchtliche regionale Unterschiede in der Ausprägung sozioökonomischer Indikatoren, die die Lebensverhältnisse beeinflussen. Es wird deshalb in Politik und Gesellschaft diskutiert, ob die im Grundgesetz postulierte Gleichwertigkeit der Lebensverhältnisse noch...

Core infrastructure, which covers transportation, information and communication (ICT), energy, water and sanitation systems, plays a significant role in economic growth. The development of core infrastructure - one of the European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy (CP) priorities - is heavily funded....

The integration of modern information and communication technologies (ICT) triggers an evolutionary process from previous analog towards convergent digital infrastructures that are the basis for new, cross-domain services and applications. The implementation, however, poses new requirements and...

There are evidences that the actual global crisis affected the convergence process in EU. Generally, just new adhered countries were more affected by the actual crisis. Today all forecasts are suffering by uncertainty. Last time, economists, with their methods and models, are invoked for actual...

Coming from standard economic growth theory and empirical evidences, we concentrated on the convergence process as a result of structural changes in economy. We investigate the differences among countries in EU in terms of the share in total economy of main sectors. Then, based on the spatial...

Certainly the current crisis is affecting seriously the convergence process in EU. Starting from the spatial distribution in EU of some fundamental development indicators before the current crisis, we try to estimate the impact of the prolonged crisis. During last years, the less developed...