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Alternative scenarios of after-crisis conditions for regional growth in the context of the Cohesion Policy : an example of the Polish region of Warmiñsko-Mazurskie.
Zaleski, Janusz; Kudeko, Joanna; Proproch, Aleksandra; … - 2014
The comprehensive and complex category of territorial capital is regarded as a crucial driving force behind regional development. It does, however, depend upon increasingly growing tangible and intangible interlinks and interdependencies of a particular region with a closer and further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488241
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Economic growth and infrastructure in Brazil : a spatial multilevel approach
Almeida, Eduardo Simões de; Guimarães, Pablo Miranda - 2014
alternatives for doing an analysis of income convergence for Brazil. One alternative would be to do the income convergence analysis … the estimators, among other limitations. The other alternative would be to perform the analysis of income convergence only … hierarchical structure of necessary data in order to perform the analysis of conditional income convergence, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503515
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Regional economic development and competitiveness : a study of leading and competitive sectors and shift-share analysis of Diyarbakir-Şanliurfa Region, Turkey
Deniz, Zühal Çelebi - 2014
Disparities across regions and provinces are on the agenda of both developed and developing countries. Differences in terms of development and income between regions are becoming more important policy challenge particularly in developing countries. As a developing country, inter-regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503539
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Cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitans regions
Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de; Spolador, Humberto … - 2014 - (Preliminary draft)
This paper analyses the relationship between household cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitan regions. The country's economic growth in the last decade contributed significantly to structural economic changes at the regional level, in terms of employment, population growth and...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504386
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Implications of the 2000 watt society for urban planning and economics
Lienhard, Melanie - 2014
Based on the increasing popularity and dispersal of the concept of the 2000 watt society the paper analyses what defines the concept and what kind of implications it has including the challenges in regards to urban planning and economics. The literature analysis has shown that a sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504400
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Assessing the Brazilian Regional Economic Structure : a spatial output decomposition analysis : this paper was prepared to be presented at the European Regional Science Conference...
Perobelli, Fernando Salgueiro; Haddad, Eduardo Amaral; … - 2012
The use of an interregional input-output model enables us to better understand the regional economic structure of production. It provides a rich and detailed static picture of a specific economy. We can implement a comparison overtime and across space. The second one will be implemented in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508125
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An application of the disequilibrium adjustment framework to small area forecasting and impact analysis
Hewings, Geoffrey; Jae Hong Kim - 2011
The disequilibrium adjustment frameworks, pioneered by Carlino & Mills (1987) and further extended by Boarnet (1994a), have been widely adopted by various regional and intra-regional studies, 1) determining whether jobs follow people or people follow jobs or the both; 2) examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524162
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Challenges for economic growth of regions in the Baltic Sea Region : case study of Latvia
Kalnina-Lukasevica, Zanda - 2011
The Baltic Sea region is one of the most socially, economically and technologically developed regions in the world. The region has a high GDP level, limited social inequality in a global context, leading positions in Doing Business and Global Competitiveness indeces. Meanwhile, the region is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525232
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The impact of export-oriented entrepreneurship on regional economic growth
González-Pernía, José L.; Peña-Legazkue, Iñaki - 2011
Although export-oriented new ventures and the field of international entrepreneurship have received considerable attention by scholars during the last decade (Oviatt and McDougla, 2005), their potential economic impact has not been sufficiently analyzed yet. To the best of our knowledge, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530174