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This article examines the adoption, by the New Labour government, of a mixed communities approach to the renewal of … in market-led regeneration; and its alignment with a new urban policy agenda in which cities are gentrified and … parallel with emergent governance structures, in which local state and capital interests combine and communities may …
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towards a narrower focus on economic regeneration, at large spatial scales, and on the reduction of worklessness. Evaluations …
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stylised facts are considered: globalisation, information technology, and competition. Globalisation and information technology …
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The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used is investigated using British data from an establishment survey, cohort studies and the European E-Living survey. We examine the importance of activity and frequency of use in these various data sources. We find...
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We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … that ICT capital played an increasingly important, and in the 1990s the dominant, role in accounting for labour … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …
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model which suggests that improvements in ICT will increase the dispersion of economic activity across cities making city …
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other structural changes over the same period such as increased globalisation and usage of ICT. I argue that the increase …. Surprisingly however, the positive correlation between ICT and net entry share – a main result of earlier studies – becomes more …
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productivity. The “Solow Paradox” of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …
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Computers and ICT have changed the way we live and work. The latest WERS 2004 provides a snapshot of how using ICT at …
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How big a boost to long run growth can countries expect from the ICT revolution? I use the results of growth accounting …-sector model is required because of the very rapid rate at which the prices of ICT products have fallen in the past and are … expected to fall in the future. According to the two-sector model, the main boost to growth comes from ICT use, not ICT …
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