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Regional economic growth and SMEs in Brazil : a spatial analysis
Cravo, Túlio - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector for a panel of 503 Brazilian micro-regions for the period 1980-2004 using panel spatial econometrics. It investigates the importance of the SME sector size measured by the share of the...
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What about regions in regional science? : an exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013 - Palermo, Italy
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Cravo, Túlio - 2013
in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs …
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The impact of Brazilian regional development funds on regional economic growth : a spatial panel approach : 54th ERSA Congress, 26-29 August 2014 - Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cravo, Túlio; Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, … - 2014
In Brazil, the regional development policy is directed by the regional development funds for the Northeast (FNE), the North (FNO), and the Central-West (FCO), which invested more than ?36 billion in lagging regions between 2004 and 2010. This policy seeks to facilitate the economic and social...
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An exam of the role of the geographical proximity for the university-industry linkages : (paper presented at ERSA 2010 Congress "Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the...
Garcia, Renato; Araujo, Veneziano de Castro; Mascarini, … - 2010
It is widely recognized in the literature that the clustering of firms can generate benefits for the local firms, especially in terms of the creation and diffusion of knowledge among producers. One of the main sources of this new knowledge is the academic research, which can contribute to the...
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