Introduction -- Part I: Service Industries: Growth Factors, Globalization and Innovation -- Part II: Regional Aspects of FDI in Services, Export Decisions, Productivity and Employment -- Part III: Location of Service Industries: Cities, Internationalization, the Case of Some Specific Activities...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Neoclassical and Post-Keynesian Theories of Regional Growth and Convergence/Divergence -- 3 'Endogenous Growth Theory' and 'New Economic Geography' -- 4 Club Convergence -- 5 Empirical Measure of Regional Convergence -- 6 EU-27 Regions: Absolute or Club...

This contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of regional problems and policies in the countries of Latin America. The book is in three main parts: a general overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America as a whole; country-level coverage...

Editorial Introduction -- Part A: Analytic Advances and Methodology -- Part B: Structure and Spatial Characteristics of R&D Networks -- Part C: Impact of R& D Networks and Policy Implications -- Epilogue

1 Introduction -- 2 The Spatial Policy Context of Economic, Agricultural and Environmental Change in Rural Ireland -- 3 A Review of Microsimulation for Policy Analysis -- 4 The SMILE Model: Construction and Calibration -- 5 Validation Issues and the Spatial Pattern of Household Income -- 6 Farm...

Preface -- 1 Employment Location Models: An Overview -- Part I: Macro-Scale Approaches -- 2 Employment and Labour in Urban Markets: The IRPUD Model -- 3 Modelling the Economic Impacts of Transport Changes Experiences and Issues.- 4 A Population-Employment Interaction Model as Labour Module in...

Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better...