Seria curioso saber como isto seria interpretado se fosse lido por alguns, mas tenho um palpite: a primeira coisa seria referir que temos convergido com o Continente e, mesmo, ultrapassado algumas das suas regiões - foi aquilo que foi enfatizado aquando do anúncio dos últimos dados conhecidos sobre a evolução do PIB regional em Portugal.
[....] An analysis by The Economist shows that regional income disparities have widened in several rich countries during the recession (see article), and are particularly big in Britain and America. The gap between Britain’s poorest regions (mainly in the north and Wales) and its richest (in the south-east) has widened for the past 20 years. It grew worse during the recent recession, and is likely to widen again as government budget cuts fall disproportionately on poorer regions. [....]Does this matter and, if so, what should be done about it? To most politicians the answer to the first question is self-evidently yes. [....] And all too often the answer to the second question has involved subsidies. The European Union’s “structural funds”, more than a third of the EU’s budget, are designed to shift cash from richer to poorer parts of the single market. [....]Unfortunately, the record of such regional-development efforts is poor. [....] Even policies that, in principle, should be helpful, such as improving infrastructure, are no panacea. [....] And good intentions can backfire: “enterprise zones” and other regional tax incentives often shift jobs away from places that don’t get the subsidy, rather than create new ones.Instead of obsessing about revitalising lagging regions, politicians would do better to focus on the people within them. A region’s prosperity is determined by its inhabitants’ productivity and thus by people’s skills, the scale of capital investment and the pace of innovation. These are bound to vary across regions."– Enviado através da Barra de ferramentas do Google"
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