The EMU debt crisis thatemerged in 2010 has identified a group of Southern countries, especiallyGreece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, as low performers exhibiting several seriousmacroeconomic imbalances, and it has also highlighted that EU integration experiencedby Eastern European countries (especially the latter-comers to EU) was notaccompanied by a rapid process of real convergence. Since then, the researchabout the effects of peripherality have regained a renewed interest toultimately ground better regional policy recommendations aimed at achieving asustained reduction of income per capita disparities across EU regions.
In this new work, Pascariu and Duarte, along with an international group ofacclaimed scholars, delve into key challenges currently facing the EuropeanUnion. They investigate this central question: does the domestic market systemlead to the development of a center-periphery model, by highlight gaps, or doesit support the convergence process? Analyzing the effects of peripheralityacross the EU regions, a two-fold approach is used to deliver policyrecommendations grounded in economic theory, and of interest to other countriesand regions facing a process of integration.
PART I. INTEGRATION, GROWTH, CONVERGENCE. SOUTHERN VERSUS EASTERN PERIPHERALITY
1. Introduction: Core-periphery Patterns in the Development of EU’s Regions. Eastern vs. Southern Peripherality
2. The Dynamics of the EU Core-Periphery Division: Eastern vs. Southern Periphery – a Comparative Analysis from a New Economic Geography Perspective
3. Integration, Growth and Core-Periphery Pattern in EU’s Economy. Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidences
PART II. STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ENLARGEMENTS
4. EU Integration and the Centre Periphery Divide: Growth and Structural Change in Southern and Eastern European Countries
5. Dutch Disease in Central and Eastern European Countries
6. Structural Change, Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Panel of Central and Eastern European Countries
PART III. CORE-PERIPHERY PARTICULARITIES IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE: CASE STUDIES
7. Clusters of Rural European Regions. An Approach to Show the Multi-Dimensional Character of Core-Peripheral Patterns
8. Is Eastern Europe Following the Same Transition Model as the South? A Regional Analysis of the Main Migration Transition Drivers
9. Competitiveness of Cities and their Regions in Poland – Changes in the Light of the Growth Pole Concept
PART IV. CORE PERIPHERY PATTERNS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS. SECTORAL ISSUES
10. Fiscal Decentralisation and Self-Government Practices: Southern vs. Eastern Periphery of the European Union
11. Continuity versus Discontinuity in the 2014-2020 EU Cohesion Policy
12. Beyond the Core-periphery Model: Policies for Development in a Multi-dimensional Space
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