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Poland in the Period of Economic Transition and Germany After Reunification an Attempt at Assessing Σ-Convergence

dc.contributor.authorGötz, Martaen
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-10T10:10:28Z
dc.date.available2015-07-10T10:10:28Z
dc.date.issued2010-11-19en
dc.identifier.issn1231-1952en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/10864
dc.description.abstractIn 2009 and 2010 Poland and Germany are celebrating some important anniversaries - 20 years of the first free elections and the fall of the Berlin Wall. These jubilees inspire research aiming at taking stock of developments having unfolded over this time. Since the economic cohesion is high on the EU agenda, examining international and interregional differences seems an important research task. This article aims at evaluating and comparing σ-convergence (diminishing discrepancies of GDP p.c.) in Poland (1995-2005) and Germany (1992-2006) on three NUTS levels. Preliminary results point to inequalities regularly diminishing in Germany, however, growing in Poland. A tentative reasoning suggests that increasing values of regional differences observed in Poland might be a temporary phenomenon.en
dc.publisherLodz Univeristy Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEuropean Spatial Research and Policy;17en
dc.rightsThis content is open access.en
dc.subjectσ-convergenceen
dc.subjectregional disparitiesen
dc.subjectnew economic geographyen
dc.subjectNomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics - NUTSen
dc.titlePoland in the Period of Economic Transition and Germany After Reunification an Attempt at Assessing Σ-Convergenceen
dc.page.number71-94en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationInstytut Zachodni w Poznaniu, ul. Mostowa 27, 61-845 Poznań, Polanden
dc.identifier.eissn1896-1525
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