IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/cjrecs/v5y2011i1p15-29.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Regional performance and inequality: linking economic and social development through a capabilities approach

Author

Listed:
  • Diane Perrons

Abstract

Despite European Union objectives for economic and social cohesion, current measures of regional development are defined economically, reflecting the separation in policy and academia between economic issues, concerned with growth, and social issues, concerned with redistribution. Drawing on the capabilities perspective and a similar methodology to the UNDP's Human Development Index, this paper calculates a measure of regional development for UK regions and contrasts the results with orthodox GDP measures. The key finding is that London appears less of a successful region and more of a region with intense contrasts, including high levels of poverty, perhaps better reflecting inhabitants' sense of well-being. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.

Suggested Citation

  • Diane Perrons, 2011. "Regional performance and inequality: linking economic and social development through a capabilities approach," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 5(1), pages 15-29.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:5:y:2011:i:1:p:15-29
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/cjres/rsr033
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Davide Luca & Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, 2014. "Electoral politics and regional development: assessing the geographical allocation of public investment in Turkey," Working Papers. Collection A: Public economics, governance and decentralization 1402, Universidade de Vigo, GEN - Governance and Economics research Network.
    2. Tomas Hanell & Teemu Makkonen & Daniel Rauhut, 2022. "Guest Editorial: Geographies of Well-Being and Quality of Life," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 164(1), pages 1-10, November.
    3. Davide Luca, 2013. "Regional development goals and distributive politics in the allocation of Turkey's central investments: socioeconomic criteria, parties and legislators' personal networks," ERSA conference papers ersa13p981, European Regional Science Association.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:5:y:2011:i:1:p:15-29. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/cjres .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.