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Space and Growth
Abreu, Maria; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - 2004
This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325168
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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan
Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365294
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Misspecification in Linear Spatial Regression Models
Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2003
Spatial effects are endemic in models based on spatially referenced data. The increased awareness of the relevance of spatial interactions, spatial externalities and networking effects among actors, evoked the area of spatial econometrics. Spatial econometrics focuses on the specification and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325035
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The Impact of Regional Absorptive Capacity on Spatial Knowledge Spillovers
Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008
We design a conceptual framework for linking two approaches: the literature on absorptive capacity and the literature on spatial knowledge spillovers. Regions produce new knowledge, but only part of it is efficiently adopted in the economy; the share of efficiently adopted technology depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325801
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Regional Population-Employment Dynamics across Different Sectors of the Economy
de Graaff, Thomas; van Oort, Frank G.; Florax, Raymond … - 2011
An important subset of the literature on agglomeration externalities hypothesizes thatintrasectoral and intersectoral relations are endogenously determined in models of localand regional economic growth. Remarkably, structural adjustment models describing thespatio-temporal dynamics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326283
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A Meta-Analysis of Beta-Convergence: The Legendary Two-Percent
Abreu, Maria; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - 2005
The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325489
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Territorial Capital and Regional Growth: Increasing Returns in Cognitive Knowledge Use
Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325811
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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development : Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis
de Groot, Henri L. F.; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn - 2014
Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048250
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CLIMATE SENSITIVITY OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE
Kumar, K.S. Kavi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Climate change impact studies on agriculture are broadly based on agronomic-economic approach and Ricardian approach. The Ricardian approach, similar in principle to the Hedonic pricing approach of environmental valuation, has received significant attention due to its elegance and also some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363542
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DATA REQUIREMENTS AND STATISTICAL CHALLENGES FOR DESIGNING CLIMATE FRIENDLY ENERGY POLICIES IN MULTILATERAL FRAMEWORK
Sankar, U. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
India needs reliable good quality database and methodologies for designing, implementing and monitoring climate-friendly policies. This paper focuses on the database needs for policies in the context of multilateral frameworks. It provides suggestions to the Central Statistical Organization (CSO...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365277