Harvey W. Armstrong

TL;DR: In this paper, the case for regional policy regional policy instruments indigenous development - small firms and technological progress regional policy in the EEC regional policy and devolution the evaluation of regional policy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the convergence rate of per capita growth among subnational regions of the European Union between 1950 and 1990 and found that convergence rates have been reduced in the 1970s and 1980s compared with the 1960s.

TL;DR: The economic performance of micro-states and those sub-national regions enjoying a high degree of autonomy is a generally under-researched area as discussed by the authors, and the authors of this paper build on earlier research (Armstrong and Read, 1995) by employing quantitative techniques to test: 1) the extent to which the economic performance differs, by comparing their GNP per capita with that of the region in which they were located and with the countries to which they are adjacent; 2) whether some micro states perform better than others as a result of differences in their economic structure;

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between economic growth in small states and their vulnerability is investigated, and the results highlight some conceptual shortcomings in the analytical literature on small states, particularly islands, as well as suggest that the Vulnerability Index is mis-specified.