European economic integration drives a political economy of regionalism that defines the principal axis of political-economic division in the New Europe. The New Economy drives a radical shift in EU policy from cohesion or redistribution toward innovation promotion, affecting distributional...

In this task, research is mostly finalised to analyse how EU policies have been distributed across space. Here, the main focus is on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) expenditure. The same territorial detail adopted in previous tasks is used (i.e., NUTS 3 level). By analysing CAP expenditure at...

We investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region....

1 Political Economy of Japanese and Asian Development -- 2 The Challenge of the Rising Sun -- 3 The Pattern and Process of Asian Economic Development -- 4 Japanese Savings, Growth and Housing -- 5 Japanese Entrepreneurship in the Early Stage of Development -- 6 Japan and East Asia -- 7 US- Japan...

East Asia in the wake of the financial crisis / Andrew MacIntyre, T.J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill -- After the fall : East Asian exchange rates since the crisis / Benjamin J. Cohen -- Banking systems a decade after the crisis / Natasha Hamilton-Hart -- Containing the oligarchs : the politics of...

The prospects and value of economic integration and regionalism in Asia are increasingly evident in what could turn out to be ‘the Asian Century’. It is within this context that this important book explores the critical economic issues, security concerns and political themes pertinent to...