The United States and European Union differ significantly in terms of their innovative capacity: the former have been able to gain and maintain world leadership in innovation and technology while the latter continues to lag. Notwithstanding the magnitude of this innovation gap and the political...

This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005, paying special attention to whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing world differently. Using a combination of static and...

The paper addresses the spatial structure of agriculture in Poland whose spatial development is analysed from the beginning of the transition towards a market economy up until the country's forthcoming accession to the EU and the correlated implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy (Cap)....