This report was produced in the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, as part of the programme of work of the Regional Development Policy Committee (RDPC), and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC). The report benefitted from the financial support of the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy.
From OECD side, the report was produced by Ana Isabel Moreno Monroy under the supervision of Jose Enrique Garcilazo, Head of the Regional and Rural Policy Unit in the Regional Development and Multi-level Governance Division, led by Dorothée Allain-Dupré. From EC-JRC side the report was produced by Chris Jacobs-Crisioni and Mert Kompil under the supervision of Carlo Lavalle, project manager of the LUISA Territorial Modelling Platform of the Urban and Territorial Development Unit led by Alessandro Rainoldi. The report was drafted by Chris Jacobs-Crisioni (EC-JRC), Mert Kompil (EC-JRC) and Ana Isabel Moreno Monroy (OECD) with contributions from Tamara Krawchenko (University of Victoria) (Chapter 1) and Daniel Howdon (University of Leeds) (Chapter 4). Marc Bournisien de Valmont (OECD) contributed valuable analysis to the report.
The OECD is grateful to Pedro Abrantes (Ministry of Education, Portugal), William Palmer (Nuffield Trust, United Kingdom) and Ulf Tynelius (Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, Sweden) for providing valuable inputs for the analysis. Special thanks to the following people at the OECD for their support and substantial comments at various stages of the report: Stefano Barbieri, Andrea Colombo and Andres Sanabria at CFE (OECD); Luka Boeskens and the OECD School Resources Review team led by Deborah Nusche (OECD); and Luca Lorenzoni and colleagues at the Health Division led by Francesca Colombo (OECD). The OECD is also grateful to delegates of the OECD RDPC and its Working Party on Rural Policy for comments and guidance throughout the project. EC-JRC is grateful to Carmelo Attardo and Glauco Prina for supporting the online data platform production, Maarten Hilferink (Object Vision) for providing technical support, and Patrizia Sulis (EC-JRC) for statistical support. This report relies on local demographic data produced by the LUISA Territorial Modelling Platform with contributions from Jean-Philippe Aurambout, Claudia Baranzelli, Filipe Batista e Silva, Anne Goujon, Andrius Kucas, Fabrizio Natale and Carolina Perpiña Castillo (all EC-JRC).
Pilar Philip (OECD) co-ordinated the production process of the report. Meral Gedik provided editorial assistance and Jeanette Duboys (OECD) prepared the manuscript for publication.