Regional Policy, Economic Growth and Convergence Lessons from the Sp
Many European, Latin American and Asian countries have experience with regional policies aiming to reduce regional disparities in GDP per capita and/or to develop problem regions helping to recover from its GDP decrease. Spain represents, without any doub
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Regional Policy, Economic Growth and Convergence Lessons from the Spanish Case
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Regional Policy, Economic Growth and Convergence
Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura Editor
Regional Policy, Economic Growth and Convergence Lessons from the Spanish Case
Editor Professor Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura University of Alcala Department of Applied Economics Plaza de la Victoria, 2 28802 Alcala´ de Henares - Madrid Spain [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-02177-0 e-ISBN 978-3-642-02178-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02178-7 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009930391 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The analysis of the praxis in regional development policies and the study of changes which have taken place in specific cases are of increasing interest. They contribute to clarifying the problems and restrictions which appeared when those policies were designed, the results achieved and also, the errors or flaws which resulted. All this, together with the in-depth studies about some questions of regional growth, as are the reduction or not of the regional disparities, the structural changes, the evolution of productivity, the role played by the main factors which explain growth, the intraregional inequalities, or the study of some of those factors, as are infrastructures, human capital formation and the advances in terms of competitiveness, make it possible to obtain some interesting lessons for the future. The origin of this book has been rather long in time, but in the end it was satisfactorily completed. The aim has been to offer a fresh contribution to the analysis of the relationship between economic growth, regional convergence and the regional policies really applied, departing from different approaches to a specific case study. To that end, a number of contributions have been selected which, although do not cover all the questions which perhaps might be desirable, offer to the interested reader a rich enough panorama about the Spanish experience and policy-makers, academ
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