This article is a theoretical review regarding to specialised literature of regional development, trying to provide an answers to a general and actual question of cohesion policy: why some regions develop more swiftly than the others? The answers are given preponderantly by the regional economic...

Situated in a permanent process of adaptation and transformation, the SME sector recorded a significant national quantitative and qualitative leap. At the regional level, development of the SME sector is determined by a number of local factors, which distinguish and emphasize the importance of...

Cities as well as their neighborhoods undergoes a continous changing process, as an effect of economic, politic evolutions and of the social structure criteria change. The new city aim is to ensure continuity in the cycle of human activities, respectively among housing, jobs, recreation. In the...

Attention of regional economic convergence has a great place in economics literature. The application of spatially explicit methods of data analysis to the convergence question has yielded important insights on regional economic growth. The literature on regional income inequality, although...

One of the important objectives of the European Union was creating a new instrument “which builds on the experience of promoting cross-border co-operation within the PHARE, Tacis and INTERREG programmes”, and which could focus “on ensuring the smooth functioning and secure management of...

Starting with the year 2000, the European Union programmes for candidate countries are conceived following the model of financing addressed to member state.

The West Region is situated in the western part of Romania, on the border with Hungary and Serbia, and consist of four counties: Arad, Caras-Severin, Hunedoara and Timis.