Over the past decades, knowledge, science and innovation have become the most important pillars on which the economic development is based. At the same time, the regions are considered to be the new poles of economic growth. In this context, universities are expected to expand their classic role...

Despite existing policies of regional development and cohesion at the national and the EU level, economic regional inequalities or disparities stay relatively high or decrease too slowly. In this context, policies to reduce economic regional disparities in the European Union are a constant...

Gegenstand dieses Beitrags ist der fortdauernde Abstand der Arbeitsproduktivität zwischen dem Westen und dem Osten Deutschlands, fast 20 Jahre nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung. Der Beitrag zeigt, dass die Arbeitsproduktivität im verarbeitenden Gewerbe noch immer im Osten rund ein Viertel...

This paper disaggregates the various sources of rural income growth in Peru between 2004 and 2012 and shows that about 80% of the increase came from rising earnings and only 15% from transfer programs. This increase in rural earnings was not led by agriculture. It was mainly because of a general...