EU Regional Policy and Spain's Economic Development: The Impact of Capital Widening and Productivity Stagnation in the period 1989–2010.

Geographic location of data collection: The dataset includes information about Spain (only regions in the Iberian Peninsula), spanning latitudes from approximately 43° 47' 36" N to 36° 00' 08" S, and longitudes from approximately 3° 19' 05" E to 9° 17' 46" W.

Information about funding sources or sponsorship that supported the collection of the data:  The authors want to thank the GCD Research Group to support the funding to the research stays to carry out this research. The authors also want to thank the IVIE (Valencian Institute for Economic Research) for granting us access to their macroeconomic regional data to carry out one part of this database. 

General description: This study combines two group of sources of information for the period 1989-2010.
For one hand, we access four data sources, the Valencian Institute of Economic Research, (IVIE), the Spanish National Statistics Institute, (INE), The Spanish ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (MECS) and the former Spanish Ministry of Economics and Finance (MEF) which have been used for the main macroeconomic variables of the model (Value added per worker, human capital augmented-labor, business capital, infrastructure capital and R&D expenditures).
For another hand, the data on the variable that proxies the transport infrastructure EU funding have been obtained from the European regional policy annual reports issued from 1989 until 2010 by the Directorate General of Community funds of the Spanish ministry of Economics and Public Finance (Known in the Spanish jargon as DG Fondos). Within the time frame of our database we analyzed the information contained in the annual reports issued over the four programming periods since the Spanish adhesion to the EU, (1989-1993, 1994-1999, 2000-2006 and 2007-2013) on the amounts invested by region and year in transport infrastructures financed by the ERDF and Cohesion Fund, as well as central and regional governments funding.