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Regional growth and national development: transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the regional Kuznets curve in the East and the West
Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126360
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Entrepreneurship and Local Growth - a comparison of the U.S. and Sweden
Borgman, Benny; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
The U.S. is traditionally viewed as an economy driven by entrepreneurs, whereas the Swedish model is associated with high welfare ambitions and less focus on entrepreneurial activities. This paper seeks to empirically investigate whether the connection between entrepreneurship and growth at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644926
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Knowledge flows, knowledge externalities and regional economic development
Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
New knowledge generated by an economic agent in a region will tend over time to flow to other economic agents in the same region but also to economic agents in other regions. It is quite common in the literature to use the concept of knowledge spillovers for such knowledge flows, irrespective of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742097
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Breaking the cycle : a strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth in Burundi
Baghdadli, Ilhem (contributor) - 2008
A strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth -- Burundi's growth -- Agricultural recovery : food security and beyond -- Export crops : toward a significant contribution to growth -- Overcoming the main obstacles to growth
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003685329
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Thailand : rural growth and employment
1983
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Bangladesh : a proposed rural development strategy; a World Bank study
2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014277265
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Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the global financial crisis to Sub-Saharan Africa and ways to recovery
Chauvin, Sophie; Geis, André - European Central Bank - 2011
This paper first presents a comprehensive analysis of the significance of different transmission channels of the global economic and financial crisis to Sub-Saharan African countries. It then examines the repercussions of the crisis for the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688327
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Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the global financial crisis to Sub-Saharan Africa and ways to recovery
Chauvin, Sophie; Geis, André - European Central Bank - 2011
This paper first presents a comprehensive analysis of the significance of different transmission channels of the global economic and financial crisis to Sub-Saharan African countries. It then examines the repercussions of the crisis for the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868066