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The impact of European Cohesion Policy in urban and rural regions

Luisa GagliardiDepartment of History, Economics and Society (DEHES), School of Social Sciences (SdS), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK; and Research Centre for Regional Economics, Transports and Tourism (CERTeT), Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.Correspondence[email protected]
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Marco Percoco[email protected] of Policy Analysis and Public Management, and Research Centre for Regional Economics, Transports and Tourism (CERTeT), Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.View further author information
Pages 857-868 | Received 13 Aug 2014, Accepted 01 Apr 2017, Published online: 05 Jul 2016

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