Empirical investigation on how wellbeing-related infrastructure shapes economic growth: Evidence from the European Union regions.

ABSTRACT: One of the most important policies of the European Union is regional development, which comprises measures of enhancing economic growth and citizens' living standards via strategic investment. Considering that economic growth and wellbeing are intertwined from the perspective of EU policies, this study examines the relationship between wellbeing-related infrastructure and economic growth in 212 NUTS 2 regional subdivisions across the members of Eu-28 during the period 2001-2020. We therefore analyzed data from 151 Western Europe regions and 61 Central and Eastern Europe regions by means of a panel data analysis with the first-difference generalized method of moments estimator. Our main interest was to determine the degree to which Western Europe regions responded to predictors as compared

SUBMITTER: Batrancea LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10115347 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature