The first two articles in the special issue, by De Dominicis and by Monastiriotis, focus on the analysis of regional growth and examine the influence of agglomeration and national developments on inequality, respectively. The article by Ezcurra and Rodríguez-Pose looks instead at how trade openness impacts on within-country regional disparities, while the article by Kyriacou and Roca-Sagalés examines in turn how regional disparities impact on the quality of government at the national level. The final article by Sacchi and Salotti examines the impact of different forms of decentralisation on income inequalities at the household level.

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