As the World Bank’s 2012 Golden Growth report emphasized, the European Union, since its founding, has been a ‘convergence machine,’ generating wealth and a higher quality of life for the poorest in the 28 EU member states. More recently, the Growing United report highlighted that while the convergence machine still works, it is not working for everyone. And among the fault lines emerging in the convergence machine, regional inequality represents a...
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2018/01/01
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Working Paper
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AUS0000107
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1
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2018/05/07
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Disclosed
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Overview
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lagging region
Citation
Farole,Thomas; Goga,Soraya; Ionescu-Heroiu,Marcel.
Rethinking lagging regions : using cohesion policy to deliver on the potential of Europe's regions (Vol. 1 of 2) : Overview (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/636851525400071277