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Trade is no leveller. As Martina Pardy & I show, in #Europe, #trade deepens the divides within regions. And proximity is no protection against polarisation: intra-national and intra-#EU trade correlate with rising income #inequality. doi.org/10.1111/grow.7…

Can industrial policy ignore #geography? #Westminster tried. South #Wales had a world-class chip cluster. It got neglect, not strategy. Thought-provoking case study by Lang, Huggins & Max munday in Territory, Politics, Governance. doi.org/10.1080/216226…

Policy failure often begins with who gets picked. Nicola Caravaggio, giuliano resce & Cristina Vaquero Piñeiro use AI in their SEPS paper to predict #EU #rural fund recipients They show that fortune still favours the firm, if it’s in the mountains 😄. doi.org/10.1016/j.seps…

Forget Guangzhou. It’s #trade with Brussels, Bordeaux, Bavaria or other regions in your country or the #EU that deepen #inequality in #Europe. Intra-EU trade, not #globalisation, is the true driver. My new paper with Martina Pardy in Growth & Change doi.org/10.1111/grow.7…

#Europe’s real divide isn’t ideological—it’s spatial. Not left right but centre/periphery, dynamic/stagnant. #Nawrocki’s win reflects that when local voices are stunted, the #EU project falters. bbc.com/news/articles/… intereconomics.eu/contents/year/… doi.org/10.14746/quage…

Don’t miss tomorrow, 3 June, 09:00 CET, @ Vienna City Hall: Growing Cities vs. Shrinking Countrysides in Central Europe. What are the causes, what are the consequences? Join our Spring Seminar, organised in cooperation with Stadt Wien & KDZ. ➡️ wiiw.ac.at/e-710.html

As Europe’s cities swell, and its countrysides empty—political fractures are deepening. At the wiiw Spring Seminar, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose warned: spatial inequality feeds political anger. The setting #Rathausplatz Stadt Wien was stunning. The message, anything but.

Fascinating keynote by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (LSE) at our Spring Seminar: The EU’s very existence is at stake due to the widening development gap between poorer and richer regions in Europe, which is increasingly strengthening anti-EU populist parties across the continent. 1/2

EU cohesion policy should therefore support development by focusing on regional strengths and potentials, rather than financing cutting-edge technologies and industries concentrated in already developed parts of Europe, he argued. 2/2 Full keynote: ➡️ shorturl.at/yJB9V

Honoured to be cited by Martin Sandbu in his recent Financial Times article on the Polish elections. #Poland’s vote is no outlier—it echoes a wider turn to #populism. This is a revenge of the places that don’t matter. Recognition trumps reform. doi.org/10.31389/lsepp… ft.com/content/65daa3…

Twenty-five years of #EU #regional #development research distilled to a sober truth: #cohesion is more than catching up — it’s fundamentally about mobilising local potential and holding together. doi.org/10.1111/joes.1…

Some fellowships fund output. This one honours depth. The Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE invites scholars to join a space where serious thinking and reflection still matters. For those proposing research that endures, not just performs. 🔗 lse.ac.uk/canada-blanch/…

When scholars speak across borders —national, intellectual, generational— the result is rarely mere noise. Join the Spring 2025 Miguel Dols Fellows’ Workshop at the Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE LSE: an evening of long thoughts, open minds & new reflections. lse.ac.uk/canada-blanch/…

Anti-EU-Stimmung und Wählergunst für radikale Parteien sind in jenen Regionen am stärksten, die über längere Perioden von der nationalen Entwicklung abgehängt werden und überaltern. Großer Artikel über die Keynote von Andrés Rodríguez-Pose bei unserem Spring Seminar in Die Presse.

#Infrastructure is not a rival to firm #subsidies; it is their multiplier. As argued by Fantechi, Fratesi, Gianinetto & Polinelli, roads connect firms to markets and public spending to #productivity. Without tarmac, the returns of public policy wither. doi.org/10.1007/s11079…

In a crisis, looking inward is always the initial instinct. But in the #USA, according to Riccardo Crescenzi & Ganau in Regional Studies - @regionalstudies.bsky.social, regions that looked outward—investing abroad—reaped all the rewards. Knowledge, like rain, fertilises best when it travels. doi.org/10.1080/003434…

When the engine of #prosperity forgets to pull every wagon, the carriage grows mutinous. As Wolfgang Böhm writes in Die Presse, #Europe’s left-behind are not mute. There, economic drift becomes political rupture & the centre bleeds #votes to the margins. doi.org/10.1080/001300…

The industrial heartlands & #rural #Europe aren’t inert; they’re insurgent. Nadia Boffa HuffPost's geography of discontent echoes our #DevelopmentTrap findings: neglect local potential & you mint #populists. doi.org/10.1080/001300… doi.org/10.1080/001300… huffingtonpost.it/esteri/2025/06…

La #geografía, no la clase social, decide el voto. Ricardo Molero Simarro lo explica en The Conversation ES, repasando mi investigación sobre la brecha entre areas dinámicas y zonas estancados. Ignorar el mapa es no entender el auge del #populismo. doi.org/10.1080/001300… theconversation.com/el-estancamien…

📣 Reminder! Join us TOMORROW at 6pm for an evening of vibrant interdisciplinary discussion insights as our 6 #LSEMiguelDols #Fellows present their ongoing research 📍LSE Campus, PAR.2.03 (Parish Hall) Topics #Macroeconomics #Law #Migration #Inequality #Environment #LabourMarket