-northern regions to retain resources otherwise wasted in the South. We argue that such a view muddles up efficiency and redistribution … Mezzogiorno regions, we first show that the regional distribution of (both current and capital) government expenditure has …% of total capital government expenditure to be made in the South). For most centre-northern regions, the actual residua …

inequality levels in a set of 100 EU-15 regions at the end of the XX century before and after the operation of the tax … that tax-benefits systems in Europe notably reduce market inequality in all EU regions and that the size of this reduction …

after the 1998 reform over the taxpayers from each of the regions of the common fiscal territory: tax liability … the income tax Taxpayers Panel. We conclude several differences according to the income levels of the regions if the … progressivity increases nor improvement in social welfare terms for the majority of the common regions. …

paper shows that in this period inequality of Russian regions in GRP per capita and wages was diminishing. In the given … period in Russian regions there existed un- conditional beta-convergence, poor regions grew faster than rich ones. This … 1990s, with the state pressure having been eliminated, the differentiation between Russian regions began, while in the 2000 …