R egional unbalanced growth and the factors affecting it are one of the most important economic issues in developing countries. In this research, after evaluating the regional inequality at the provincial level of Iran, in order to examine the effect of economic factors on it, it was considered as a spatial econometric model using panel data during the period of 2001 to 2015. The evaluatio...

Within the approaches that have been applied to assess the impact of public capital on economic growth, this paper estimates the dynamic effects of public infrastructures using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) methodology for the Spanish regions. From a methodological point of view, our work contains different innovative features with respect to the previous studies using VAR models. T...

the object of the regional planning is optimum use of resource for the development of regions. one of the most important items in regional development is the recognition of spatial and economical structure of the region. middle sized cities, have the secondary role in the study of economical structure of the regions. global experiments demonstrate that lack of attention to the role of secondary...

â â â  â â â  nowadays, the world economies are rapidly moving towards being more knowledge-based economy (kbe) and supporting the force of knowledge as a vital component of economic growth. this recent acceleration in the transition to knowledge-based economy in the world, has affected regional economic performance. in this paper, we surveyed the regional convergence in knowledge-based economy...

Since late 2000s, economic growth has gained increasing attention, while economic development became the ultimate objective of the national policies. Recently regional income disparities rose as a critical factor of regional development policies, as people started to recognize relative poverty from the drastic national economic growth with huge income gap between social classes. Wilkinson and P...

development of financial markets as an important factor in the economic growth process always has been of interest to economists. the purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between regional financial development and economic growth. this study uses provincial annual data over the period 2000-2011 by using panel data technique. the panel co integration techniques have been used to te...

China’s local government debt (LGD) has recently become the focus of economic policy debates. However, information about LGD and its impact on economic growth in the Chinese economy is scarce. This paper attempts to present an empirical investigation of the impact of China’s LGD on economic growth. It is probably the first of its kind to focus on China and thus contributes to the general litera...

This paper aims at re-assessing the relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view equating knowledge to innovation and to regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are highly differentiated at the regional level and explore this relationship for 262 NUTS2 European regions. Our results confirm that knowledge and innovation are both important drivers of ...