Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how national interpersonaltransfer policies affect regions’ economic growth. Reviewing the economic literature,we found only incidental evidences and contradictory conclusions. Our objective isto provide some statistical evidence of the relation between in...

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Main Authors: Olivier Meunier, Michel Mignolet, Marie-Eve Mulquin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AECR 2007-06-01
Series:Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
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Online Access:http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2007/07%20Meunier.pdf
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spelling doaj-e40a0da6dc3e44658e4283632165d8ab2020-11-25T00:20:38ZengAECRInvestigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research1695-72532007-06-0110155170Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?Olivier MeunierMichel MignoletMarie-Eve MulquinThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how national interpersonaltransfer policies affect regions’ economic growth. Reviewing the economic literature,we found only incidental evidences and contradictory conclusions. Our objective isto provide some statistical evidence of the relation between interregional interpersonalredistribution towards poor European regions and their relative growth. Usingsome recent developments in the field of spatial data analysis, we found that interpersonaltransfers do not seem to affect negatively the economic growth of poor Europeanregions, while it is not possible to assert their impact on rich regions.http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2007/07%20Meunier.pdfIncome transfersregional growthspatial dependence.
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author Olivier Meunier
Michel Mignolet
Marie-Eve Mulquin
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Michel Mignolet
Marie-Eve Mulquin
Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?
Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
Income transfers
regional growth
spatial dependence.
author_facet Olivier Meunier
Michel Mignolet
Marie-Eve Mulquin
author_sort Olivier Meunier
title Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?
title_short Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?
title_full Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?
title_fullStr Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?
title_full_unstemmed Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?
title_sort interpersonal transfers: do they impact the growth of poor and rich european regions?
publisher AECR
series Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
issn 1695-7253
publishDate 2007-06-01
description The purpose of this paper is to investigate how national interpersonaltransfer policies affect regions’ economic growth. Reviewing the economic literature,we found only incidental evidences and contradictory conclusions. Our objective isto provide some statistical evidence of the relation between interregional interpersonalredistribution towards poor European regions and their relative growth. Usingsome recent developments in the field of spatial data analysis, we found that interpersonaltransfers do not seem to affect negatively the economic growth of poor Europeanregions, while it is not possible to assert their impact on rich regions.
topic Income transfers
regional growth
spatial dependence.
url http://www.aecr.org/images/ImatgesArticles/2007/07%20Meunier.pdf
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