's and the world's growth champion. I argue that this growth miracle was driven by five fundamental factors, including Poland …

This chapter focuses on the measurement of institutional convergence in the new EU member states and four Southern … institutional convergence. We present a new method which is based on hard micro-level data. Our approach focuses on control of … poor performance of Southern European EU countries and show the considerable differences in institutional convergence …

Economic growth driven by a broad spectrum of factors is essential to long-term, sustainable development. From this … perspective the paper approaches the economic growth of rural areas in Romania in light of the Europe 2020 Strategy, in order to …

of the degree of uniformity, the number of agricultural holdings and their size at regional level. …

This chapter analyses the dynamics of regional disparities in the member states that joined the European Union in or … shrinking, regional disparities in GDP per capita and employment rates within countries have been increasing. In particular …

per se does not guarantee convergence to the EU’s frontier(s), sustainable growth in prosperity and the degree to which … differences both in terms of the policies followed by the authorities and in the process of economic convergence, restructuring …