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Public Policies, Regional Inequalities, and Growth

Philippe Martin
- 01 Jul 1999 - 
- Vol. 73, Iss: 1, pp 85-105
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In this article, the authors consider the risk that integration in Europe increases regional income disparities, given the budget of the regional policies supposed to counteract this danger, and the answer of the governments is positive.
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This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1999-07-01. It has received 323 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public infrastructure & European union.

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An Agenda for a Reformed Cohesion Policy A place-based approach to meeting European Union challenges and expectations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed two strategically different options of EU regional policy: place-neutral versus place-based policies for economic development and found that in many EU regions, the placeneutral policies may not be the best policy response to facing new challenges posed by deeper economic integration and globalisation.
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European Regional Policies in Light of Recent Location Theories

TL;DR: Despite large regional policy expenditures, regional inequalities in Europe have not narrowed substantially over the last two decades, and by some measures have even widened as discussed by the authors, and the role of regional policies, and especially of transport infrastructure improvements, in such an environment.
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Local and Regional Development

TL;DR: This book addresses the fundamental issues of what kind of local and regional development and for whom and frameworks of understanding, and instruments and policies should be pursued.
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European regional policies in light of recent location theories

TL;DR: Despite large regional policy expenditures, regional inequalities in Europe have not narrowed substantially over the last two decades, and by some measures have even widened as discussed by the authors, and discusses how recent location theories can help us to explain them and to reconsider the role of regional policies, especially transport infrastructure improvements.
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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Rural China: The Role of Public Investments

TL;DR: Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments, Growth, inequality and poverty, and public investments in China as discussed by the authors, where public investments are crucial for rural China.
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Increasing Returns and Economic Geography

TL;DR: This paper developed a simple model that shows how a country can endogenously become differentiated into an industrialized core and an agricultural periphery, in which manufacturing firms tend to locate in the region with larger demand, but the location of demand itself depends on the distribution of manufacturing.
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Monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity

TL;DR: In this article, Pettengill tests whether there is an excessive number of firms in a monopolistically competitive equilibrium by a device of considerable expository merit, and redistributes the resources thus released equally over the remaining firms in the sector, to see if welfare can be improved.
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Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the geographic location of patent citations to those of cited patents, as evidence of the extent to which knowledge spillovers are geographically localized, and find that citations to U.S. patents are more likely to come from the U. S., and more likely than coming from the same state and SMSA as cited patents than one would expect based only on the preexisting concentration of related research activity.
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R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production

TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial distribution of innovation activity and the geographic concentration of production are examined, using three sources of economic knowledge: industry R&D, skilled labor, and the size of the pool of basic science for a specific industry.
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Growth in Cities

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a new data set on the growth of large industries in 170 U.S. cities between 1956 and 1987 and found that local competition and urban variety, but not regional specialization, encourage employment growth in industries.