Regional Disparities in Ireland: The Roles of Demography, Profit Outflows, Productivity, Structural Change and Regional Policy 1960–1996

2005 ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eoin O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Regional Disparities

Structural Change and Regional Disparities in Xinjiang, China

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifton W. Pannell ◽  
Philipp Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Regional Disparities

scholarly journals Implementation of community cohesion policy in Italy and its role in elimination of regional disparities

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Lewandowski
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Community Cohesion ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
Community Policy ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities ◽  
Programming Period

The objective of this paper is to present the contribution of Community regional policy funds to achieving socio-economic cohesion of Italian regions eligible under Objective 1, as well as to discuss future development barriers and opportunities of these regions. The paper also provides a description of Italy's adjustment to the Community policy, the funds exploited by cohesive regions during the 2000-2006 programming period and their efficiency in the elimination of regional disparities.

scholarly journals Analysis of Regional Disparities in Romania from an Entrepreneurial Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira Nica ◽  
Violeta Sima ◽  
Ileana Gheorghe ◽  
Andreea Drugau-Constantin ◽  
Catalina Mirica (Dumitrescu)
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Lorenz Curve ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gini Coefficients ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Statistical Indicators

This article proposes a synthetic analysis of the development level of regions in Romania with the concentration/diversification model, using Gini coefficients and Lorenz curve, based on the current statistical indicators. Knowing the degree of concentration and also the influence factors is useful in making decisions and setting regional policy measures. The analysis of regional disparities based on a series of data and indicators provided by The Romanian National Institute of Statistics for 2007–2016. The main findings highlight a deepening of the regional disparities in Romania in 2016 compared with 2007 explained mainly by the fact that the Bucharest–Ilfov region registered an economic development much above the other regions.

scholarly journals The impact of economic crisis on regional disparities and the allocation of economic branches in Greek regions

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (44) ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Manolis Christofakis ◽  
Eleni Gaki ◽  
Dimitrios Lagos
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Crisis Period ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to analyse the changes that occurred in the regional disparities and sectoral specialisation of the Greek regions due to the economic crisis. The research problem is to identify the effect that the crisis had on the developmental perspectives of the regions and on regional policy priorities. In this framework, we explore the regional disparities, along with the allocation and specialisation of economic sectors in two separate time periods: the pre-crisis period (2000–2007) and the crisis period (2008–2014). The variable used is regional employment in the branches of economic activity. The methods used are Coefficient of Variation, Location Quotients and Shift-Share Analysis. According to the results, we classify the spatial units into categories and we propose means of regional policy. The results show that the disparities increased during the first period of the crisis and declined in the next, without, however, reaching the levels of 2000. In the first period the dynamic economic sectors are concentrated mainly in the metropolitan region of Attica and in the island region of South Aegean, while local advantages are shown in several regions except Attica. During the period of crisis, Attica and South Aegean lost their sectoral dynamism, while a few regions resisted. Regarding the local share effects, the more urbanised regions show negative local shares. The rest of the regions exhibit local advantages. Thus, according to these results, a concluding remark is that the more traditional activities seem to be more resilient, unlike the modern activities, which seem more sensitive to the crisis and are located mainly in the large cities and the most urbanised regions of the country. Regarding the proposed regional policy means, infrastructure improvement is indicated for most of the urbanised regions in order to improve their developmental environment. For the other regions, a more balanced sectoral structure must be promoted. Of course, in order to propose more targeted policy measures, it is important that regional development features (according to the classification of the regions and the proposed policy measures) be adapted to smaller areas and to a greater number of narrower economic sectors, rather than simply applying them at the regional level. This is also true of the effect that some other factors such as human capital and innovative capacity have on regional resilience. Future research will focus on this.

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