Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 The new economic geography of Europe: an introduction / George Petrakos, Gunther Maier, Grzegorz Gorzelak 1
  • The new European economic landscape 2
  • Developments and challenges in the new European economic space 17
  • 2 The spatial impact of East
  • West integration in Europe / George Petrakos 38
  • The forces at work 38
  • The spatial characteristics of EU integration 42
  • The spatial characteristics of transition 44
  • The macro-geographical impact of East
  • West interaction 48
  • Policy considerations 59
  • 3 Regional disparities in the EU through the lens of official statistics / Michael Dunford 69
  • The measurement of regional inequality 69
  • The map of inequality 73
  • Measured inequality and territorial disaggregation 76
  • Components of territorial disparities 80
  • The role of sectoral structures 84
  • Indicators of disparities and trends in inequality 86
  • A disaggregation of trends in output per capita 91
  • 4 Urban change in an integrating Europe / Paul Cheshire, F.E. Ian Hamilton 100
  • Some preliminaries 103
  • Convergence and divergence in urban economies 115
  • The implications of integration and adjustment for CEE cities 121
  • 5 The dilemmas of regional policy in the transition countries and the territorial organisation of the state / Grzegorz Gorzelak 131
  • The regional patterns of East-Central European transformation 135
  • Regional policies during transformation of East-Central Europe 139
  • The decentralised or centralised state? 142
  • European integration and the Central European transformation 145
  • 6 Regional labour market differentials during transition in Hungary / Karoly Fazekas 150
  • Major characteristics of regional unemployment rate differences in Hungary 150
  • Typology of the Hungarian local labour markets according to determinants of regional unemployment rate differentials 157
  • 7 The new regional structure in Hungary / Jozsef Nemes-Nagy 170
  • Macroregional pattern of development 171
  • Microregional inequalities: 'winners' and 'losers' 177
  • Assessing the influence of geographic location by means of the potential model 180
  • The future of regional development 183
  • 8 Employment problems and regional differences in Central and Eastern Europe: the need for local development initiatives / Maarten Keune 187
  • GDP and employment in the 1989-97 period 187.