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Regional Convergence from LocalIsolated Actions: I Historical Outcomes

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  • Danny Quah

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This paper documents the dynamics of growth and convergence across regions in the Cohesion countries, comparing them to patterns across countries in the world, regions in Europe and more broadly, and regions in non-Cohesion EU member states. Among the Cohesion economies, Spain and Portugal have, in aggregate, grown fastest, and with greatest increase in regional inequalities. Their dynamic tendencies, if unchecked, will magnify what has occurred over the 1980s. By contrast, Greece shows the opposite: its aggregate growth has been slowest; its regional inequalities, smallest; and further tendency towards increasing equality, greatest. Increase in disparity between rich and poor across either countries in the world or broader regional aggregates in Europe as a whole.

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  • Danny Quah, 1997. "Regional Convergence from LocalIsolated Actions: I Historical Outcomes," CEP Discussion Papers dp0378, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    • Handle: RePEc:cep:cepdps:dp0378
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    1. Lionel Artige & Rosella Nicolini, 2006. "Labor productivity in Europe: Evidence from a sample of regions," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 661.06, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
    2. Peter Wostner, 2003. "Regional Disparities in Transition Economies: the case of Slovenia," SCIENZE REGIONALI, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2003(1).
    3. Batóg Barbara & Batóg Jacek & Mojsiewicz Magdalena, 2009. "Application of Kernel Estimation in Analysis of Labour Productivity of the Largest Polish Firms in 2004-2008," Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, Sciendo, vol. 8(1), pages 126-139, January.
    4. Laura De Dominicis, 2014. "Inequality and Growth in European Regions: Towards a Place-based Approach," Spatial Economic Analysis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(2), pages 120-141, June.
    5. Rosella Nicolini, 2011. "Labour productivity in Spain: 1977-2002," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(4), pages 465-485.
    6. Sudekum, Jens, 2002. "Subsidizing Education in the Economic Periphery: Another Pitfall of Regional Policies?," Discussion Paper Series 26130, Hamburg Institute of International Economics.

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