1. Chinese economic development and its social and institutional foundations / Michael Dunford -- 2. Governance, politics and culture / Weidong Liu -- 3. Regional disparities / Hui Liu -- 4. Transformation of rural China / Yansui Liu and Hualou Long -- 5. Changing geography of manufacturing /...

The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of Italy's territorial inequalities from 1952 to 1996 and to consider what the Italian record tells us about the utility of theories of convergence and divergence. After outlining the scale and nature of contemporary development gaps in Italy,...

DUNFORD M. (1996) Disparities in employment, productivity and output in the EU: the roles of labour market governance and welfare regimes, Reg. Studies 30, 339-357. The aim of this paper is to develop a set of empirical and theoretical connections between geographies of inequality on the one...

Dunford M., Perrons D., Reilly B. and Bull R. (2002) Citations, authors and referees: Regional Studies, 1981-2002, Reg. Studies 36, 1055-1067. The aim of this paper is to provide information about who publishes in the journal, how frequently this work is cited, what share of papers submitted are...

DUNFORD M. (2003) Theorizing regional economic performance and the changing territorial division of labour, Reg. Studies 37 , 839-854. After identifying the general mechanisms underling the centripetal and centrifugal forces whose interplay shapes the relative performance of regional economies,...