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Regional Disparities and National Development Revisited: The Case of Western Europe
Ist Teil von
European urban and regional studies, 2006-10, Vol.13 (4), p.355-369
Ort / Verlag
London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Quelle
PAIS Index
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article explores the relationship between regional inequality and economic
development level in 14 Western European countries for the period
1980–2002. The results, which were obtained by means of a semi-parametric
methodology, indicate the presence of a process of regional divergence once a
certain level of development has been reached. Nevertheless, in contrast to the
available empirical evidence for the United States, our estimates show that the
increase in regional disparities is purely transitory. Indeed, beyond a given level
of per capita GDP, regional inequality can be seen to decrease, ultimately leading
to a stabilization of territorial imbalances in the later stages of the development
process.These findings are robust to the inclusion of additional variables in the
analysis and to the choice of the measure used to quantify regional disparities.