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Writing

‘Just talking, or getting impact?’ (2022),
blogpost on public-private dialog in competitive cities and regions, Medium.com.

'Detecting economic growth pathways in the EU’s lagging regions' (forthcoming, 2022),
Regional Studies journal.

‘When is a risky bet still a good bet?’ (2021),
published in the Centre for Cities blog on local industrial strategies.

‘How do small regions in Europe achieve growth?’ (2021)
Published in the Brookings Institution blog on Future Development.

‘Economic Growth in European Union NUTS-3 Regions’ (2020),
Policy Research Working Paper 9494, Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

‘Growth and Jobs in Slavonia, Baranja, and Srijem: Rapid Diagnostics’ (2019).
Commissioned by the Government of Croatia.

Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth: What, Who, and How’ (2015).
Flagship publication of World Bank, to reveal main patterns in city economic success.

Jobs to Social Cohesion: via interests, attitudes, and identities’ (2012)
Paper for World Development Report 2013: Jobs.

‘Chinese economics of urbanism’, in DCF, Mars & Hornsby (eds.) (2008),
The Chinese Dream: a society under construction, Rotterdam: 010.

Intra-urban spatial inequalities: cities as “urban regions”’ (2007)
and ‘The role of cities in post-war economic recovery’ (2007),
papers for World Development Report 2009: Rethinking Economic Geography.

Chapter in UNDP (2007), Post-Conflict Economic Recovery: Enabling Local Ingenuity.
‘Promoting stability on Europe’s borders: a comparative study of Kosovo, Transdniestria and Abkhazia’,Working Paper 06/38, Conflict Studies Research Centre, U.K.