This profile, prepared in the course of START (Secretariat Technical Assistance to Regions in Transition) technical assistance, outlines regional characteristics. The region of Stara Zagora, located in south central Bulgaria, has a population of 291,852 (2022) and covers 11 municipalities. Its...

Zasavje is Slovenia's smallest statistical region by surface area, covering only 485 square kilometers. It has the second smallest population of Slovenia's regions, with 57,204 residents as of early 20211 . With a population density of 117 inhabitants per square kilometre, it was the third most...

Industrial growth plays a vital role in driving regional progress, as inequalities primarily stem from diverse industries. This becomes particularly significant in the Global South, where wealth creation is a challenge, poverty is persistent and disparities are widening. India serves as a...

Although multiple studies on structural change can be found at the national level, the definition of structural change is far from univocal and its subnational manifestations remain underexplored. This paper empirically examines the patterns of regional structural change in Argentina according...

This paper contributes to the literature on economic relatedness and diversification in Brazil. It uses firm-level, occupational data to estimate the relationship between regions' diversification, the degree of relatedness, and economic complexity indexes. Given that the current literature often...

Energy diversification is an issue linked to the economic development of countries and has different aspects such as energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, energy security, etc. Considering the importance of energy diversification in this regard, this study calculates diversification...

The study presents the results of grouping EU NUTS 2 regions based on the share of employment in particular sectors (knowledge‑intensive high‑technology services, knowledge‑intensive market services and other knowledge‑intensive services), as well as GDP per capita, in 2008 and 2018. The...

We analyze how regional economic structures affect the impact of monetary policy on rates of inflation across 34 Indonesian provinces. The paper first applies structural factor augmented vector autoregressive model (SFAVAR) to all the 34 provinces based on monthly provincial data in order to...

Being a form of territorial division of labor, economic specialization should be considered as a strategic management priority, contributing to a competitive territorial production structure and, consequently, regional economic growth. The article is devoted, firstly, to the development of a...

Gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Dynamiken führen zu einem stetigen Wandel von Wirtschaftsstrukturen. Abhängig von der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur verlaufen Anpassungsprozesse einfacher oder schwerer. Die transformatorischen Veränderungen wirken sich dabei positiv oder negativ auf die...

The aim of this study is not only to define the industrial development space of the region in Vietnam, but also to assess the linkage in local industrial development. Research space in the Southern Key Economic Region-Vietnam’s most vibrant industrial production region-is based on the approach...

Sachsen hat den Übergang von der Plan- zur Marktwirtschaft in den 1990er-Jahren nicht schlechter, aber auch nicht besser bewältigt als die anderen ostdeutschen Bundesländer. Der wirtschaftliche Aufstieg Sachsens zum selbst ernannten Klassenprimus in Ostdeutschland ging vor allem auf Kurt...

In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the historic exchange rate appreciation. As is consistent with the interpretation that import penetration undermines regional input-output linkages, our regressions detect the...

A key driver of urbanization is the pursuit of economic opportunities in cities. One such opportunity is the promise of higher wages in larger cities, a phenomenon known as the urban wage premium. While an urban wage premium has been well-documented among U.S. metropolitan areas, little is known...

The paper provides an ex-post analysis of the determinants of within-country regional heterogeneity of the labour market impact of COVID-19. By focussing on the first wave of the pandemic in the four largest euro area economies, it finds that the propagation of the economic impact across regions...

Regionalspezifische Wirtschaftsstrukturen haben einen Einfluss auf die Resilienz von Regionen in konjunkturellen Krisenzeiten. Noch unklar ist in diesem Zusammenhang die relative Bedeutung kleinerer Unternehmen. Haben sie hinsichtlich der Arbeitslosigkeitsentwicklung in der Corona-Pandemie als...

The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar economic development. It exploits differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could modernize more their...