Promoting Growth in All Regions Lessons from across the OECD

Is growth possible in all OECD regions? Evidence suggests that it is. Helping underdeveloped regions to catch up with more developed ones will have a positive impact on a country’s national growth overall, and such growth helps to build a fairer society, in which no region’s citizens are left behind. This publication draws on case studies of 23 regions from ten OECD countries: France (Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées, Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Germany (Brandenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt), Hungary (Central Transdanubia – Kösép-Dunántúl), Italy (Marche, Sicilia), Mexico (Chiapas, Durango, Estado de México, Jalisco, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas), The Netherlands (Zuid-Nederland), Poland (Lubelskie, Podlaskie, Wielkopolskie), Spain (Principado de Asturias), the Slovak Republic (Vychodne Slovensko), and the United Kingdom (North East – Tyne and Wear, North West – Manchester, Yorkshire and Humberside – Leeds).