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Regional Focus & Working papers

Regional Focus

The Regional Focus is a series of relatively short papers on a specific theme prepared by the Directorate General for Regional Policy.

n° 02/2012 : What are counterfactual impact evaluations teaching us about enterprise and innovation support?

n° 01/2012 : Cities in Europe - The new OECD-EC definition
This regional focus explains the new OECD-EC definition of a city and its commuting zone. It is the first internationally harmonised definition for which data will be collected in so many countries. The revised Urban Audit has taken this new definition on board and will publish data for all these cities in 2013.

n° 03/2011 : The financial execution of Structural Funds

n° 02/2011 : The European regional Human Development and Human Poverty Indices

n° 01/2011 : Regional typologies: a compilation - 1. Urban-rural typology including remoteness - 2. Metro regions - 3. Border regions - 4. Mountain regions - 5. Island regions - 6. Sparsely-populated regions

n° 03/2010 : The Regional Lisbon Index

n° 02/2010 : Regional Innovation Governance

n° 01/2010 : Does population decline lead to economic decline in EU rural regions?

n° 02/2009 : Public investment in Spain

n° 01/2009 : Metropolitan regions in the EU

n° 02/2008 : Labour mobility between the regions of the EU-27 and a comparison with the USA

n° 01/2008 : Remote Rural Regions - How proximity to a city influences the performance of rural regions - Urban/Rural classification of NUTS3 regions

Working papers

A series of short papers on regional research and indicators produced by the Directorate-General for Regional Policy

n°02/2012 : The Role of International Transfers in Public Investment in CESEE: The European Commission's experience with Structural Funds

n°01/2012 : Regional Governance Matters : A Study on Regional Variation in Quality of Government within the EU

n°02/2011 : A New Regional Competitiveness Index: Theory, Methods and Findings - Maps : Basic Pillars - Efficiency Pillars - Innovation Pillars - Annex : Regional Competitiveness Index Data - Regional Competitiveness Indicators

n°01/2011 : Estimating the capital stock for the NUTS 2 regions of the EU-27

n°03/2010 : Patterns and trends of public investment in the new Member States of the European Union

n°02/2010 : Modelling the Policy Instruments of the EU Cohesion Policy

n° 01/2010 : The economy of the Italian regions: recent developments and responses to the economic crisis

n° 03/2009 : The Future of Cohesion Policy in Richer Regions

n° 02/2009 : Territories with specific geographical features

n° 01/2009 : A Cross-Country Impact Assessment of EU Cohesion Policy - Applying the Cohesion System of HERMIN Models

n° 01/2008 : Convergence of EU regions - Measures and evolution