“Quisiera hablarles hoy del drama de Europa (…) Entre losvencedores sólo se oye una babel de voces. Entre los vencidosno encontramos sino silencio y desesperación (…) Existe unremedio que, si fuese adoptado global y espontáneamente por lamayoría de pueblos de los numerosos países,...

The paper presents new results on within-country regional inequality in per capita income for 36 countries during 1995-2005; focusing on Europe but with some non-European countries included for comparison. In 23 of the 36 countries there was a significant increase in regional inequality during the...

Implementation of the European internal market and East-West integration has been accompanied by a dramatic change in the spatial distribution of economic activity, with higher growth west and east of a longitude degree through Germany and Italy. In the east, income growth has been accompanied...