Abstract
The aim of regional policy is the attainment of a more efficient and/or equitable interregional distribution of economic activity. As demonstrated earlier in this book, the UK during the past 15 years has experienced an underlying widening, and not narrowing, of disparities in the interregional distribution of economic activity as measured by, for example, output and employment. On the surface, recent UK regional policy appears to have been a failure rather than a success. This view is taken by several regional economists, including Townroe and Martin whose view is that,
arguably never well specified or targeted, regional policy had failed to keep pace with the changing nature and pattern of the regional problem (Townroe and Martin, 1992, p. 20).
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Temple, M. (1994). Regional Economic Policy. In: Regional Economics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23364-9_8
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