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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 …
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Spatial dynamics and convergence: the spatial AK model
Boucekkine, Raouf; Camacho, Carmen; Fabbri, Giorgio - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2010
same (detrended) consumption over space and time, lead to convergence in the level of capital across locations in the long-run. …
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Spatial Econometrics
LeSage, James; Pace, R. Kelley - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University
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Perspectivas fiscales 2014-2018
Villar, Leonardo; Forero, David; Steiner, Roberto; … - FEDESARROLLO - 2014
Desde el año 2004 el Ministerio de Hacienda publica anualmente el Marco Fiscal de Mediano Plazo (MFMP) en el cual se presentan las proyecciones oficiales sobre ingresos y gastos del gobierno central para los siguientes diez años. Como es de esperar, dichas proyecciones están sujetas a altos...
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Provisión de servicios públicos e infraestructura en zonas marginadas y no interconectadas
María, Mauricio Cárdenas Santa; Arjona, Marcela Meléndez - FEDESARROLLO - 2004
La prestación de los servicios de infraestructura en zonas aisladas y marginadas es un desafío importante en cualquier país ya que la alta dispersión de la población eleva los costos de prestación, y la baja capacidad de pago dificulta su financiamiento. En Colombia, estas dificultades se...
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El marco institucional para la regulación, supervisión y el control de los servicios públicos en Colombia: propuesta para su fortalecimiento
Argáez, Carlos Caballero; Jadresic, Alejandro; Gómez, … - FEDESARROLLO - 2004
"El propósito de este documento es, precisamente, elaborar dicho diagnóstico y formular una serie de reomendaciones para logar el fortalecimiento de las instituciones encargadas de la regulación y la supervisión de las empresas proveedoras de servicios públicos en Colombia. Este...
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Environmental policy and the economic downturn
Bowen, Alex; Stern, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper considers how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. It first explores the implications of the global economic downturn of 2008-09 for environmental policies, focusing in particular on the example of action against climate change. The arguments for and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744909
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Impacts of Regional Growth on Farmland Development in the Northeast U.S.
Hailu, Yohannes; Brown, Cheryl - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007
This study models the relationship between regional growth and agricultural land development in the Northeast United States. A system of simultaneous equations is estimated using three-stage-least squares on county-level data. Results indicate that regional growth puts upward pressure on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904069
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Impacts of Regional Growth on Farmland Development in the Northeast U.S.
Hailu, Yohannes; Brown, Cheryl - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007
This study models the relationship between regional growth and agricultural land development in the Northeast United States. A system of simultaneous equations is estimated using three-stage-least squares on county-level data. Results indicate that regional growth puts upward pressure on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929291
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Incubation Push or Business Pull? Investigating the Geography of US Business Incubators
Qian, Haifeng; Haynes, Kingsley - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2010
The primary purposes of this paper are to present the geographic distribution of US business incubators and to explore geographically bounded factors that influence the location of business incubators. Our data show that US business incubators are unevenly distributed across the urban/rural...
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