This paper uses the Solow and Kuznets models to help explain the pattern and differences in economic growth and income distribution in four major regions within California. Using county-level data from 1969 to 1999, I estimated that statewide real per-capita personal income has diverged (become...

The observation of spatial inequalities in the world today reveals that these are not just visible between countries. Indeed, they are also more pronounced between regions of the same country according to our level of development. In Morocco although the significant progress to be made, the...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of fiscal decentralization on regional economic growth and income inequality in Java Island Year 2009-2013. The results show that simultaneously fiscal decentralization has a significant effect on economic growth and income inequality. While...

We investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region....

The economic development of Argentina since the end of the nineteenth century is a story of growth, splendour and then stagnation and relative decline. In this chapter we present the first consistent formal quantitative analysis of the regional dimension of that story. By putting together...