MEASURING REGIONAL CONVERGENCE - AN APPLICATION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ROMANIA
Attention of regional economic convergence has a great place in economics literature. The application of spatially explicit methods of data analysis to the convergence question has yielded important insights on regional economic growth. The literature on regional income inequality, although somewhat older than the convergence literature, has been slower to adopt new spatially explicit methods of data analysis. Application of recently developed methods of spatial econometrics to the question of regional convergence has yielded a more comprehensive and multidimensional view of regional economic growth. This article aims to identify the techniques and methods use for regional convergence and i…
URBAN PLANNING - NEW THEORETICS APPROACHES
Cities as well as their neighborhoods undergoes a continous changing process, as an effect of economic, politic evolutions and of the social structure criteria change. The new city aim is to ensure continuity in the cycle of human activities, respectively among housing, jobs, recreation. In the period of economic crisis, cities can have a key role, by exploit of their innovative and integrativ potential, may open up new opportunities for implementing structural reforms and for faster adapting to the economic and social realities in change. The study refers to the new outlook of the urbanism concept determined by the economic and political evolution of society and it make reference to some m…