Empirical Explorations in Regional Growth

1 A number of economic explanations for the process of regional growth have been proposed in the literature. Apart from pure scholarly interest, understanding the factors that have promoted growth in some regions while others have been left lagging is of crucial importance for the design of policy aimed at helping "depressed" regions or promoting balanced growth among regions. The purpose of studying the process of regional growth is to delineate the variables that have the major influence ...