Variations in the Spatial Distribution of Areas of Economic Growth and Stagnation in Poland: Determinants and Consequences
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Keywords

differences
growth
stagnation
areas
region
subregion
Poland

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Churski, P. (2014). Variations in the Spatial Distribution of Areas of Economic Growth and Stagnation in Poland: Determinants and Consequences. Quaestiones Geographicae, 33(2), 63–77. https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2014-0016

Abstract

The results presented here come from one of the stages of a research conducted under the project Socio-economic development and the formation of areas of economic growth and stagnation, funded by the National Science Centre (N N306 791940). The project is implemented by a team of staff members of the Department of Regional Analysis of the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, headed by the present author.

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