Absolute Convergence: the Main Challenge in the Enlarged European Union

Iulia Bucur and Mircea Mirela Cristina ()
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Mircea Mirela Cristina: „Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Faculty of Economics

Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, 2011, vol. XI, issue 1, 285-290

Abstract: Regional economic convergence issue has been and continues to be intensively treated and debated topic in the economic literature, not being able to accurately assess whether the process of regional economic growth is a convergent or divergent one. Multitude of studies and research in this area indicate the relevant subject matter and also the difficulties of analyzing the regional convergence and divergence processes and theoretical limits of the substantiation of European Union cohesion policy.

Keywords: European economic integration; real convergence; divergence; regional disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 O47 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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