... Publishing Limited 2011 Regional disparity Globe score Culture (sociology) Socio‐economic regions Economic disequilibrium The dependent variables Regional Disparity Index (Williamson index)This index measures the weighted dispersion of incomes between the regions...

... Socio‐economic regions Health care Maternity services Ghana The principal aim of maternal health care is early recognition and management of women at risk of complicated pregnancy (Van den Heuvel et al., 1999). However, it is estimated that over half a million women in developing...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Rural areas Regional development Socio‐economic regions Population Switzerland Local development strategies are still often focused on economic development, understood as encouraging the settlement of new companies and the activities of existing...

... Limited 2007 Call centres Ireland Socio‐economic regions Work psychology This paper builds on the builds on a previous article published in Vol. 33, No. 10 of this journal titled, “A case study in the globalization jobs in Ireland.” It does so by objectively assessing many...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Sustainable development Socio‐economic regions Social economics Social responsibility At the start of the twenty‐first century, humankind faces “interesting times”. Global climate change linked to a carbon‐rich lifestyle threatens to eliminate...

... (Topolski, 1993). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Central Europe Socio‐economic regions Economic development Poland Section 3 describes the emergence and the historical evolution of interregional differences in Poland over centuries, and provides evidence that those gaps have...