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022			_aEnglish
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100	1		_aPetrakos, George _eauthor
245	1	0	_aRegional convergence and growth in Europe: understanding patterns and determinants _ccreated by George Petrakos, Dimitris Kallioras, and Ageliki Anagnostou
264	1		_aLondon: _bsage, _c2011
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440			_aEuropean Urban and Regional Studies _vVolume 18, number 4
520	3		_aThe paper examines the pattern of regional convergence and the determinants of regional growth in Europe, providing a discussion of the issues that are of relevance to the theoretical conceptions and the subsequent design of regional development policy, supported by an illustrative empirical analysis. The analysis covers 249 NUTS II regions of the European Union in the period 1990–2003. Using as its basis the standard framework of (absolute) β-convergence, the paper detects a mirror-image J-shaped relationship between regional growth and regional development levels. This type of relationship indicates that regional divergence factors are getting stronger, and, eventually, dominate, at more advanced levels of development. On the basis of a regional growth model, factors such as agglomeration economies, geography, economic integration and economic structure seem to create an overall unfavourable economic environment for lagging (and, possibly, less favoured) regions. Such an environment generates dilemmas and questions concerning the mix of policies that may promote growth and at the same time reduce regional inequalities in the European Union.
650			_aRegional convergence _vGrowth in Europe _xPatterns and determinants
700	1		_aKallioras, Dimitris _eco-author
700	1		_aAnagnostou, Ageliki _eco-author
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0969776411407809
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