Inter-regional disparities in China have been an important concern for central-government policy-makers for most of the past 60years. One of the main policy instruments for redressing the imbalance between the prosperous coastal region and the poorer inland region has been the allocation of...

The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood. This paper proposes a simple model in which such implications can be easily analyzed. It shows an overall tendency of imperfectly competitive sectors to inefficiently cluster...

This paper deals with allocation of financial resources from selected operational programmes among Czech regions and assess whether a regional innovation paradox occurs in the Czech Republic. Regional innovation paradox expresses a state when some regions with lower innovation performance and...

This document presents a detailed analysis of the regional development issue in Quebec. First, it includes an analysis of the available regional economic data, which confirms the relative decline of "peripheral"" regions versus ""central"" regions. A critical survey of regional policies enforced...

This Selected Issues paper analyzes fiscal devolution in Belgium. It examines long-term fiscal strategies for meeting the fiscal burden of population aging. The paper presents estimates of the fiscal costs of population aging in Belgium, and discusses their sensitivity to underlying assumptions....

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview (Eduardo A. Haddad) -- Part I. Regional Setting -- Chapter 2. Is There a Case for Regional Policy in Colombia? (Jaime Bonet) -- Chapter 3. Income Inequalities in Colombia (Leonardo Bonilla) -- Chapter 4. Regional Convergence in Colombia in the Twenty-First...

Seit Beginn der Transformation haben in den Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas (MOEL) die interregionalen Disparitäten zugenommen. Insbesondere die Stadt-Land-Gegensätze haben sich verstärkt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Entwicklung der Disparitäten auf und diskutiert auf der Basis theoretischer...