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Integration and transition in Europe : the economic geography of interaction / edited by George Petrakos, Gunther Maier, and Grzegorz Gorzelak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petrakos, George.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in the European economy ; 11.
- Routledge studies in the European economy ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regionalism--Europe.
- Regionalism.
- Europe.
- International economic relations.
- Europe--Economic integration.
- Europe--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Europe--Politics and government--1945-.
- Local Subjects:
- Europe--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Europe--Politics and government--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Summary:
- This important volume analyzes the spatial implications of the on-going integration-transition process, and examines key issues such as north-south and east-west divides, regional cooperation and cross-border dynamics.
- Contents:
- 1 The new economic geography of Europe: an introduction / George Petrakos, Gunther Maier, Grzegorz Gorzelak 1
- The new European economic landscape 2
- Developments and challenges in the new European economic space 17
- 2 The spatial impact of East
- West integration in Europe / George Petrakos 38
- The forces at work 38
- The spatial characteristics of EU integration 42
- The spatial characteristics of transition 44
- The macro-geographical impact of East
- West interaction 48
- Policy considerations 59
- 3 Regional disparities in the EU through the lens of official statistics / Michael Dunford 69
- The measurement of regional inequality 69
- The map of inequality 73
- Measured inequality and territorial disaggregation 76
- Components of territorial disparities 80
- The role of sectoral structures 84
- Indicators of disparities and trends in inequality 86
- A disaggregation of trends in output per capita 91
- 4 Urban change in an integrating Europe / Paul Cheshire, F.E. Ian Hamilton 100
- Some preliminaries 103
- Convergence and divergence in urban economies 115
- The implications of integration and adjustment for CEE cities 121
- 5 The dilemmas of regional policy in the transition countries and the territorial organisation of the state / Grzegorz Gorzelak 131
- The regional patterns of East-Central European transformation 135
- Regional policies during transformation of East-Central Europe 139
- The decentralised or centralised state? 142
- European integration and the Central European transformation 145
- 6 Regional labour market differentials during transition in Hungary / Karoly Fazekas 150
- Major characteristics of regional unemployment rate differences in Hungary 150
- Typology of the Hungarian local labour markets according to determinants of regional unemployment rate differentials 157
- 7 The new regional structure in Hungary / Jozsef Nemes-Nagy 170
- Macroregional pattern of development 171
- Microregional inequalities: 'winners' and 'losers' 177
- Assessing the influence of geographic location by means of the potential model 180
- The future of regional development 183
- 8 Employment problems and regional differences in Central and Eastern Europe: the need for local development initiatives / Maarten Keune 187
- GDP and employment in the 1989-97 period 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 041521808X
- OCLC:
- 43185873
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