Editors

Carolina Guevara Rosero, Departamento de Economía Cuantitativa, Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela Politécnica Nacional - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

This calls for public policy recommendations and actions aiming to reduce unequal regional development and growth.
This special call aims to mobilize studies on regional disparities that give insights for possible policy recommendations. We kindly invite contributions on topics related (but not limited) to:

• Spatial disparities at the subnational level, causes and effects
• Firms (innovation) and social networks in regions
• Effects of spatial disparities in economic performance
• Effects of spatial disparities in welfare
• Regional migration
• Regional economic structure and productive networks and resilience

Manuscript submission information:

All submissions must be original and may not be under review elsewhere. All manuscripts will be submitted via the Regional Science Policy & Practice online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/rspp/). Authors should indicate in the cover letter that the paper is submitted for consideration for publication in this special issue “Local disparities and Regional development”, otherwise, your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript.

• Submissions open until October 15, 2025