The study is based on the critical observations that competitive market forces alone are not able to assure convergence … economic policy based on the principle of cohesion, which supports, by means of economic levers, the less developed regions and … member countries. Our paper deals with the evolution of the EU cohesion funds, as well as with the results of convergence …

The study is based on the critical observations that competitive market forces alone are not able to assure convergence … economic policy based on the principle of cohesion, which supports, by means of economic levers, the less developed regions and … member countries. Our paper deals with the evolution of the EU cohesion funds, as well as with the results of convergence …

regions. Using data for 1992-2001, we find strong sigma divergence simultaneously with beta convergence. he results indicate …This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian … that per capita income in Russian regions may be converging towards two separate steady states.The poorest regions seem to …

dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000 - -12 period; across this period, 2008 to …