Regional Income Disparities in Indonesia: Measurements, Convergence Process, and Decentralisation

Social Effects of Regional Income Disparities

Since late 2000s, economic growth has gained increasing attention, while economic development became the ultimate objective of the national policies. Recently regional income disparities rose as a critical factor of regional development policies, as people started to recognize relative poverty from the drastic national economic growth with huge income gap between social classes. Wilkinson and P...

Regional Income Inequality in China and Indonesia A Comparative Analysis

Development Strategies and Regional Income Disparities in China

This paper argues that the regional income gap of China is endogenously determined by its long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies can be broadly divided into two mutually exclusive groups: (i) the comparative advantage-defying (CAD) strategy, which attempts to encourage firms to deviate from the economy’s existing comparative advantages in their entry into an industry or...

Income Convergence In Iranian Regions

Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration

Economic disparities between the regions of the European Union are of constant concern both for policy and economic research. In this paper we examine whether there are overlapping trends of regional development in the EU: overall convergence on the one hand and persistent or even increasing spatial concentration (agglomeration) on the other. Kernel density estimation, Markov chain analysis and...