ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to draw a basic picture of the Greek experience within the European Union (EU), describing the country’s spatial and structural patterns of development. In doing so, Greece and its economy are put within a European perspective in the next section. The third section gives an account of the regional outlook of the Greek economy and its time evolution along with a discussion of the empirical evidence existing about regional inequalities and economic convergence (divergence) of the Greek regions. This is supplemented with some basic analysis. An account of the regional dimension of Greek industrial policy is given in the fourth section. The time evolution of regional specialization and sectoral geographic concentration are the subject matter of the penultimate section. There, the analysis rests in using information-theory derived entropy measures of specialization and concentration along with some indices of structural change. Some concluding remarks are offered in the last section.
