Modern trends in the economic differences between countries and within them: comparison of the world and the European Union

This article aims to test empirically two popular hypotheses about territorial economic differences in the modern world. According first hypothesis, between countries world are not as large regions’ within countries. second decline degree of is due relatively faster development capital regions. Investigation on various levels realized applying method comparing coefficient variation income population. The source empirical data for this research Sub-national Human Development Index (SHDI) database created by Netherlands Institute Management Research Radboud University, which contains such indicator Income index SHDI inner regions 161 period from 2000 2017. A comparison at different revealed that 21st century, neither a whole nor EU higher than However, starting with 2015 began outweigh themselves, and specifics European Union. In both inter-country intra-country regional significantly lower whole. importance non-capital gradually increasing EU, although time being (and probably whole) still characterized growth, based mainly expense