Economic growth and change : national and regional patterns of convergence and divergence /

Economic growth and change : national and regional patterns of convergence and divergence /

The pursuit of economic growth is at the top of every nation’s policy agenda at the end of the 20th century. This authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly-based convergence model of economic growth by considering global, national and regional patterns of growth from a comparativ...

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Other Authors: Adams, John, ed, Pigliaru, Francesco
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham : E. Elgar, c1999
Subjects:
CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO
CONDICIONES ECONOMICAS
ESTADOS UNIDOS
EUROPA
PROGRESO ECONOMICO
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / John Adams and Francesco Pigliaru
  • Introduction: economic growth and change / John Adams and Francesco Pigliaru
  • Pt. I. The Fabric of Global Economic Growth
  • 1. On the economic rise and decline of nations / Dennis C. Mueller
  • 2. Does sovereignty matter for economic growth? An analysis of growth rates between 1870 and 1950 / M. Shahid Alam
  • 3. Society, Politics, and Economic Development thirty years after / Irma Adelman
  • 4. Openness, capital mobility and global convergence / Hui Pan
  • 5. R&D, technology and economic growth / Livio Cricelli and Agostino La Bella
  • Pt. II. Contrasting Patterns: The United States and Europe
  • 6. Inequality in regional and state per capita incomes in the United States: how much convergence has taken place? / Andrew M. Sum and Walter N. Fogg. 7
  • Per capita earnings inequality across regions and states in the United States: trends, sources, determinants / Andrew M. Sum and Walter N. Fogg
  • 8. European regional growth: do sectors matter? / Raffaele Paci and Francesco Pigliaru. 9. European 'regional' clubs': do they exist and where are they heading? On economic and technological differences between European regions / Bart Verspagen
  • 10. Human capital and growth in the European regions: does allocation matter? / Sergio Lodde
  • 11. The European Union's regional development programmes: allocation of funds by basic macroeconomic indicators / Gustav Schachter, Carmelina Bevilacqua and Levanto Schachter
  • Pt. III. Regional Mosaics in National Contexts
  • 12. Growth and sectoral dynamics in the Italian regions / Raffaele Paci and Francesco Pigliaru
  • 13. Will East Germany become a new Mezzogiorno? / Andrea Boltho, Wendy Carlin and Pasquale Scaramozzino
  • 14. Regional integration and public investment in Spain / Teresa Garcia-Mila and Ramon Marimon
  • 15. An assessment of regional risk sharing in Italy and the United Kingdom / Luca Dedola, Stefano Usai and Marco Vannini
  • 16. Economic growth and regional convergence in a sustainable space-economy / Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and Peter Nijkamp.

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