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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Sanne Velthuis, Professor Rachel Franklin, Professor Danny MacKinnonORCiD, Professor Andy PikeORCiD
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© 2025 the author(s), published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2025.Left behind places' have received increasing attention in the Global North, acknowledging growing regional inequalities between and within countries. Yet the trajectories followed by these places have mostly been investigated by assessing changes between two distant time-points. Aiming to provide more detailed insights into regional development pathways, we combine k-means clustering and sequence analysis to study detailed regional trajectories between 1982 and 2017 for EU15 NUTS3 regions. The resulting typology of trajectories evidences how some regions have increasingly or more recently fallen behind', some have remained left behind', and still others have experienced overall positive change over decades, at least temporarily catching-up on wealthier regions. As such, our findings suggest different transitions in and out of demographic and economic left-behindness'.
Author(s): Le Petit-Guerin M, Velthuis S, Royer J, Cauchi-Duval N, Franklin R, Leibert T, MacKinnon D, Pike A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography
Year: 2025
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 19/03/2025
Acceptance date: 27/02/2025
Date deposited: 09/04/2025
ISSN (print): 2748-1956
ISSN (electronic): 2748-1964
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2023-0068
DOI: 10.1515/zfw-2023-0068
Data Access Statement: Analysis is based on publicly accessible statistical and administrative data. Data sources are provided in the article.
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