Scholarly work in economic geography and regional science has recently seen a renewed interest in spatial inequalities, driven significantly by the debate on left-behind places and the resulting geographies of discontent. The plight of left-behind places calls for new place-based policy...

On the way of European integration, the Ukrainian government poses the number of priority tasks which need to be solved before entering the European Union. Among them is: - reforms in relations between government institutions and main socio-economical activities, - definition of the principles...