RationaleEconomic convergence measured by income per capita refers to the process whereby lower income regions post higher growth, so that over time cross-regional differences diminish. This process was quite intense in Spain from 1980 to 2008 when, coinciding with the onset of the financial...

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...

This paper aims to investigate structural convergence in selected African countries over the period 1994-2019. Using panel data for 48 African countries and several estimation methods [Panel-Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE), Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS), tobit model, instrumental...

Article is devoted to the analysis social advertising in the Internet and convergent journalism. Convergent journalism blurs the boundaries of reality and time and is fertile ground for the process of globalization, which is based on there is a change in the social order, mentality, habits and...

Objective: The objective of the article is to examine the eco-innovation performance of the EU countries measured by the Eco-Innovation Index and identify the key areas for improvement for the EU members with relatively low scores. Research Design & Methods: The research methods include the...

This paper explores avenues for cross-fertilisation between the mission-oriented approach and Cohesion Policy. It argues in favour of mutual policy learning between the two to address some of their respective shortcomings: Cohesion Policy is facing a gradual erosion of its identity, whereas the...

The level and growth rates of Total Factor Productivity estimates have been extensively used as a means of assessing the level of efficiency in production across regions as well as a source of the observed differences in economic performance. This paper, focusing on a sample of 242 EU NUTS2...