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The objective of this paper is to better understand how the population growth rates of rural regions are affected by … OECD TL3 regions, it identifies the growth spillover effects from the net effect of distance to non-rural places. Distance … that positive growth spillovers exist, suggesting that spread effects overcome backwash effects and thus that rural regions …
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The island of Ireland, which includes both Ireland and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), is home to 6.4 million people and has a combined economic output of USD 205 billion. Several cross-border institutions were created in response to the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement to recreate...
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The Top Technology Region/Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen triangle (TTR-ELAt) is an initiative to support cross-border collaboration in a densely populated network of small and medium-sized cities located at the heart of western Europe with an annual economic output of USD 244 billion. The collaboration...
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Estonia and Finland have centuries of collaboration, mainly between the capital areas of Tallinn and Helsinki that currently account for 2 million inhabitants and USD 76 billion in economic output. The entry of Estonia into the European Union and, since the mid-2000s, a two-hour ferry trip, have...
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The Oresund is the most well-known example of European cross-border collaboration, building on the metropolitan area around Copenhagen and, across the sound, southern Sweden with the cities of Malmö, Lund and Helsingborg. Cross-border integration intensified following the opening of a...
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Hedmark County (Norway) and Dalarna County (Sweden) are both rural, with the border being remote from regional centres. The total population of less than half a million inhabitants spans across almost 58 800 km², with an economic output of USD 22 billion. Efforts to support collaboration at the...
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most of the OECD area and call for a green growth model that differs from those identified in previous OECD studies and … rapid economic growth led in most places by the manufacturing industry, and rapidly increasing motorisation. The result has … policies for green growth in rapidly growing cities in the emerging world. It builds on Cities and Green Growth: A Conceptual …
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a pro-economic growth strategic approach. Subsequently, attractiveness has been increasingly regarded as a key factor …
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This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the ports of the Seine Axis (Le Havre, Rouen, Caen and Paris), as well as an analysis of the impact of the ports on their territory and an assessment of policies and governance in this field. It examines declining port performance in...
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This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the Port of Hamburg, as well as an analysis of the port?s impact on its territory and an assessment of relevant policies and governance. It examines port performance in the last decade and identifies the principal factors that have...
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