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Regional Private Investment and Sustainability of Economic Growth in India

Jagannath, Mallick - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The regional imbalance is one of the major hindrances for sustainability of economic growth of Indian economy. The persistence of imbalanced regional growth poses a serious threat to the economic growth and development, and creates economic, social and political tension among the states in...

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Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth

Castells-Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - European Regional Science Association - 2014

rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is … concentrate in one or few large metropolitan areas of disproportionate size. While urbanisation has been long recognised as a … fundamental element of the process of economic development, sustainable urbanisation has become one of the main and more pressing …

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Implications of the 2000 watt society for urban planning and economics.

Lienhard, Melanie - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Based on the increasing popularity and dispersal of the concept of the 2000 watt society the paper analyses what defines the concept and what kind of implications it has including the challenges in regards to urban planning and economics. The literature analysis has shown that a sufficient...

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Regional Variation in Urbanisation in India and the Emergence of New Towns

Chatterjee, Mahalaya - European Regional Science Association - 2014

towns. The average level of urbanisation hardly says anything about the regional diversity in urbanisation in the country …. The smaller city states (e.g. Delhi, Chandigarh and Goa) have urbanisation level nearly 100 percent. Among the large … states the highest level of urbanisation in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, followed by western states of Maharashtra and …

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A regional analysis of Tourism Specialization in Spain

Perez-Dacal, Diana; Pena-Boquete, Yolanda - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Tourism sector is playing an important role in the development of a region, contributing to the economy growth and job creation. Despite of the actual crisis, Tourism activities continues to growth in the last year (UNWTO 2011). Also, Spain maintains in the better positions of the world ranking....

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Smart and sustainable cities in the European Union. A tentative set of indicators

pedrini, giulio; Manitiu, Dorel Nicolae - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Cities are crucial actors in shaping economic systems, being engines of economic growth. Not surprisingly, cities have become an autonomous field of policy intervention in order to address the present global crisis through a governance process capable to achieve economic, environmental and...

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Ranking German regions using interregional migration - What does internal migration tells us about regional well-being?

Wirth, Benjamin - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This research project ranks German regions with help of interregional migration data instead of gross domestic product, household incomes, unemployment or quality of life estimates. Therefore we estimate regional utility differentials for German states and planning regions following the approach...

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The Russian Urban System in Transition: The View of New Economic Geography

Kauffmann, Albrecht - European Regional Science Association - 2013

After the price liberalization in 1991, the Russian economy was faced with a jump of costs of transportation in real terms. New Economic Geography (NEG) gives answers to questions that are related to changes in transport costs. However, the outcomes of NEG models are very sensitive with respect...

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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area: the impact of centrality and peripherality

Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...

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Development Gaps in the Sud Muntenia Region of Romania

Iordan, Marioara; Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Ghizdeanu, Ion; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Development gaps are a common feature throughout the regions of the European Union, and Romania is no exception. Despite all the political and financial efforts, the convergence process is lengthy and complex, and the gaps with the deepest economic and social roots are the most difficult to be...

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