Regions and cities face unceasing pressures to adapt in response to processes of
globalization, changes in industrial production, and new patterns of migration and trade. At …

One of the main aims of the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) is to promote the
development of rural areas. Although there is a rich abundance of academic literature on the …

The economic convergence of American regions has greatly slowed, and rates of long-term
nonemployment have even been diverging. Simultaneously, the rate of non-employment for …

R odríguez-P ose A. Do institutions matter for regional development?, Regional Studies.
This paper discusses whether institutions matter for regional development and how to …

Transport infrastructure investment is a cornerstone of growth‐promoting strategies.
However, the link between infrastructure investment and economic performance remains …

There is a consensus that the European Union should modernise its budget, tackling the
new challenges and breaking away from bureaucratic inertia and the juste retour logic that …

The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to
allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions …

Since the reform of the Structural Funds in 1989, the EU has made the principle of cohesion
one of its key policies. Much of the language of European cohesion policy eschews the idea …

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and
cohesion strategies in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However …

This paper analyzes the impact of the European Union's Cohesion Policy on firm growth in
the programming period 2007–13 in seven European countries. Results show that Cohesion …