Ostdeutsche Unternehmen sind durch eine relative Innovationsschwäche gekennzeichnet, worin auch ein wesentlicher Grund für die Wachstumsschwäche der Region zu sehen ist. Mit der Wende 1989/90 lösten sich bestehende Beziehungsnetzwerke zwischen Wissenschaftseinrichtungen und Unternehmen...

The institutional reforms towards trade liberalizations in Latin America during the 1980s and the 1990s have introduced a good measure of import competition, but trade policies alone are not sufficient to create a competitive environment in an economy. The countries in Latin America have not had...

There are large differences in gross domestic products by sectors among Latin American countries, and the majority of these differences are due to the value of industrial and service sectors. The structural reforms in countries of Latin America has broadly focused in the five major areas...

En este trabajo se estudian los factores que determinan el comportamiento de la fuerza de trabajo de la industria maquiladora de exportacion de los estados fronterizo que colindan con los estados del sur de los Estados Unidos.

THIS WORK EXPOSE THE DETERMINAT'S FACTORS OF THE CIUDAD JUAREZ LABOR'S DEMAND OF THE MAQUILADORA INDUSTRY. ESTE TRABAJO DESARROLLA UN MODELO TEORICO DE COMPORTAMIENTO DE LA DEMANDA DE TRABAJO, APLICADO A LA INDUSTRIA MAQUILADORA SITUADA EN LA CIUDAD FRONTERIZA DE CD. JUAREZ MEXICO.

Sulla base dei dati disponibili dal censimento intermedio del 1996 e del numero delle domande e del volume degli investimenti per la legge 488 (i dati qui rappresentati riguardano solo il secondo bando per motivi di sintesi) nelle regioni italiane per i settori in cui sono divise le imprese...

Questo lavoro intende affrontare la questione degli assetti istituzionali e delle modalità organizzative dell’intervento dello Stato a favore dello sviluppo territoriale. Il tema è di crescente interesse in considerazione del moltiplicarsi dei livelli di governo (sovranazionale, nazionale,...

El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico jointly form one of the largest border economies in the world. They have grown substantially in recent years and face a number of policy challenges. Topics reviewed include population, employment, incomes, retail trade, international commuting...

Within neoclassical economic growth approaches there is no fully satisfactory explanation for regional asymmetric growth. More recent extensions of the neoclassical model (new endogenous growth theories) recognise the possible influence of a set of intangible factors, which, nevertheless, do not...

I initiate the discussion with a few general remarks on industrial clusters and commodity chains. I describe the main features of the shoe industry in the Philippines. The core of the industry is located in Marikina City in the northeast of the Manila Metropolitan Area. I provide a detailed...