It has been argued that internal and external contextualizations are important aspects of research intended to be relevant, valuable, and engaged in societal progress. In this article, we advocate for scholarship focus on the city and the region as a means to achieve this goal. The notion of...

The introduction of market mechanisms regulating the economy in the Russian Federation has led to change of spatial distribution of economic activity and further increase of regional economic development disparities. All the approaches to the regional policy declared by the Government in the...

This chapter analyses the dynamics of regional disparities in the member states that joined the European Union in or after 2004, excluding Cyprus and Malta (EU11). The analysis shows that while differences between countries have been shrinking, regional disparities in GDP per capita and...

One of the basic problems of countries' balanced economic growth is the spatial heterogeneity of the regional development. The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the state strategy of spatial development of the Russian Federation based on the formation of macroeconomic...

In this article, we review recent developments in the extensive literature on territorially embedded production systems in the developed world, with a particular eye towards changes that have (or have not) occurred over the last decade. Improvements in transportation and communication...