The paper presents results from four surveys of rural businesses in mountainous and less‐favoured areas of Southern Europe. Institutional support to rural businesses is extensive and delivered through the traditional instruments of capital subsidies, training and assistance to financial and...

P<sc>ouliakas</sc> K., R<sc>oberts</sc> D., B<sc>alamou</sc> E. and P<sc>saltopoulos</sc> D. Modelling the effects of immigration on regional economic performance and wage distribution: a computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis of three European Union regions, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The paper uses a regional computable general...

Ciobanu C., Mattas K. and Psaltopoulos D. (2004) Structural changes in less developed areas: an input- output framework, Regional Studies38, 603-614. This paper uses an input-output framework to investigate structural changes within a time span of 17 years in the regional economy of East...

Chinese entry to the WTO in December 2001 marks a new phase in agricultural trade, both nationally and globally. After a context review of Chinese agriculture and WTO-related policy issues, this paper first uses a Balassa index approach to examine China's relative competitiveness in some major...

The present work provides an integrated view of rural entrepreneurship and sets the agenda for future research in the area. Rurality defines a territorially specific entrepreneurial milieu with distinct physical, social and economic characteristics. Location, natural resources and the landscape,...

The main purpose of this Handbook is to provide overviews and assessments of the state-of-the-art regarding research methods, approaches and applications central to economic geography. The chapters are written by distinguished researchers from a variety of scholarly traditions and with a...

A recursive dynamic regional Computable General Equilibrium model is developed to assess the economic impacts of two Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) scenarios in six NUTS-3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) (NUTS-1: major socio-economic regions, NUTS-2: basic regions for the...