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Regional disparities wider among EU’s newer members – study
Research shows that the poorer the country, the bigger the gap between its capital and its regions
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Although regional disparities are decreasing within the European Union’s established members, they are widening in countries that joined the bloc more recently, new research from the Czech National Bank shows.
The authors of the study, Jan Babecký and Luboš Komárek, examined the growth in per capita GDP (purchasing power parity) from 2011 to 2021. Although they found a convergence between the regions within most of the established EU countries, such as Germany, Austria and Portugal, the
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