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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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How fast are the tourism countries growing? : the cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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The link between regional temperature and regional income : econometric evidence with sub-national data

Greßer, Christina; Meierrieks, Daniel; Stadelmann, David - 2020

We study the effect of temperature on economic development on the sub-national level, employing cross-sectional data for up to 15,533 sub-national units from two distinct sources. In contrast to the existing cross-country literature on the temperature-income relationship, our setting allows us...

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Identifying and disentangling the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; … - 2019

This paper revisits the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth by addressing the endogeneity issue stemming from reverse causality and unobserved factors that has plagued previous extensive literature on this subject. In our approach, we use the Geographic Fragmentation...

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On the water-energy-food nexus: is there multivariate convergence?

Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021

This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for … multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results reveal that there is evidence of sigma- absolute beta- and conditional beta-convergence … impact of each variable on the others in the analyzed countries. The speed of convergence is simulated to assess when the …

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Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions : an analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up

Lachaud, Michée Arnold; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Ludena, … - 2015

convergence across LAC countries. Argentina defines the frontier in LAC and TFP convergence is found across all South American …

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Superstar cities and left-behind places : disruptive innovation, labor demand, and interregional inequality

Kemeny, Tom; Storper, Michael - 2020

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The two waves of service-sector growth

Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009

The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...

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Tourism and development : a recent phenomenon built on old (institutional) roots?

Brau, Rinaldo; Di Liberto, Adriana; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2010

Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...

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The economics of natural disasters : a survey

Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - 2009

Catastrophes caused by natural disasters are by no means new, yet the evolving understanding of their relevance to economic development and growth is still in its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this topic, this paper summarizes the state of the economic literature...

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