FDI and territorial marketing are fields of interest and research by many scientists and managers. However, this is still a new field of science in Vietnam, both academically and practically. The awareness of building a local image to investors, especially foreign investors, is still limited....

Rural-urban social inequality in Russia is evident. Russian public opinion proposes to reduce the rural-urban income gap, both within the framework of the self-regulating market paradigm, reflected in public programs and within the planned command economy framework. In the same ways, it proposes...

People's ability to access essential services is key to their labour market and social inclusion. An important dimension of accessibility is physical accessibility, but little cross-country evidence exists on how close people live to the services facilities they need. This paper helps to address...

The study is based on the critical observations that competitive market forces alone are not able to assure convergence with the developed countries. These observations are grounded on the results of the computation of the marginal rate of return to capital (which contradict the neoclassical...

This paper provides a contribution to the debate on the role of EU cohesion policy in Italy. The focus is on the territorial effects of EU spending from 1996 to 2007. The empirical analysis considers a neoclassical growth model which is augmented by the structural funds spent by each region....

We examine the geographic component of the audit service investments in REIT industry. Because REIT firms have strong incentive for information transparency and high audit quality, we expect that geographic distances, as a proxy for information flow, between REIT firms, their auditors, and the...