摘要：AbstractOne of de EU major concerns is cohesion and cross-border regional development. Usually cross-border regions are less dynamic, acting as bottlenecks mainly in peripheral territories. This paper is focused on the Portuguese-Spanish border using socio-economic and accessibility data. It considers Spatial Econometrics to produce statistical evidence on the relationship between accessibility and development at a local scale. A pilot study is conducted on North and Center region using variables such as population age, graduation characteristics, migrations, unemployment and daily accessibility to main towns. In future this evaluation will be applied to the entire cross-border area between Portugal and Spain.
关键词：Cross-border regions;Accessibility and development;Spatial analysis;Spatial autocorrelation studies
