Complementing EMU: Rethinking cohesion policy

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 161-179

  Begg, Iain ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; ECONOMIC PLANNING; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; REGIONAL POLICY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0038508772     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/19.1.161     Document Type: Article

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