A new book examined the impacts of area-based initiatives in two deprived urban areas in England and Germany. It evaluated the impacts of these new localism(s) on organizations and development actors at the neighbourhood level.
Source: Rene Peter Hohmann, Regenerating Deprived Urban Areas: A cross-national analysis of area-based initiatives, Policy Press
Links: Summary
Date: 2013-Sep
A background paper said that European Union cohesion policy was making a 'significant contribution' to investments in employment and growth in Europe.
Source: EU Cohesion Policy Contributing to Employment and Growth in Europe, European Commission
Links: Paper | European Commission press release
Date: 2013-Jul
An article examined the European Union's Europe 2020 strategy for sustainable and inclusive growth, in the context of the financial and fiscal crisis. It said that without a regional policy rationale, the strategy's objectives might not be realized.
Source: Leslie Budd, 'Europe 2020: a strategy in search of a regional policy rationale?', Policy Studies, Volume 34 Number 3
Links: Abstract
Date: 2013-Jul
A paper examined the impact of national wage bargaining, labour market and housing market institutions, and product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities in European Union countries. Only regional autonomy, net replacement rates, sickness benefits, and employment protection were positively correlated with regional unemployment rate disparities, whereas other variables were negatively correlated.
Source: Peter Huber, Labour Market Institutions and Regional Unemployment Disparities, Working Paper 29, WWWforEurope Project (European Commission)
Links: Paper
Date: 2013-Jul
An article examined the relative success of European cities in converting the potential for public green space usage into increased quality of life.
Source: Miguel Nogueira Lopes and Ana Camanho, 'Public green space use and consequences on urban vitality: an assessment of European cities', Social Indicators Research, Volume 113 Number 3
Links: Abstract
Date: 2013-Jul
An article highlighted 'deep-rooted ideational, interest-driven and organizational resistance and tensions' relating to the European Union's cohesion policy objectives, governance, and relationship with Europe 2020.
Source: Carlos Mendez, 'The post-2013 reform of EU cohesion policy and the place-based narrative', Journal of European Public Policy, Volume 20 Issue 5
Links: Abstract
Date: 2013-Apr
An article examined income inequality for European countries and their composite regions from 1980 to 2009. Although between-country inequality had declined, within-country inequality had increased by approximately 50 per cent. European Union cohesion policies had reduced productivity inequalities, but had had little effect in stimulating convergence of employment-population ratios across regions. National priorities, particularly in the context of the economic crisis, were likely to hinder EU policies to reduce income inequality at a regional level: this might result in further increases in regional inequality among European regions.
Source: Justin Doran and Declan Jordan, 'Decomposing European NUTS2 regional inequality from 1980 to 2009: national and European policy implications', Journal of Economic Studies, Volume 40 Number 1
Date: 2013-Mar
An article examined the 'paradox' that citizens of European countries wanted their regional governments to do more and yet seemed reluctant to embrace the logical consequences of regional control, namely inter-regional policy variation and limited state-wide intervention in policy provision.
Source: Ailsa Henderson, Charlie Jeffery, Daniel Wincott, and Richard Wyn Jones, 'Reflections on the "devolution paradox": a comparative examination of multilevel citizenship', Regional Studies, Volume 47 Number 3
Links: Abstract
Date: 2013-Mar