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Re-Mapping Opportunity : Making Best Use of the Economic Potential of Russia's Regions
World Bank (contributor) - World Bank - 2018
In order to understand a country as large and diverse as Russia, it is extremely important to consider spatial patterns … of economic development. As Russia looks for new drivers of economic growth, it is important to understand the structural … conditions that have defined economic development in Russia's regions. This report uses the Economic Potential Index (EPI …
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Russia : Reshaping Economic Geography
World Bank - 2013
instruments that can help Russia achieve the necessary spatial transformation of its economy. Russia's long history as one of … will require significant improvements across all aspects of the economy. Russia's economy faces many challenges, some of … period of communism. But as the largest country in the world, it is not surprising that many of Russia's problems relate to …
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The performance of Bulgarian food markets during reform
Larson, Donald F. - 2009
"Food policy often depends on markets and markets depend on institutions. But how good do institutions have to be before reforms can be launched? Relying on well timed surveys of agricultural prices and a joint study by the Government of Bulgaria and the World Bank on agricultural market...
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Connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility
Lall, Somik V. - 2009
"How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activEities -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394137
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Nonlinear effects of altitude on child growth in Peru : a multilevel analysis
Gragnolati, Michele - 2006
"Growth at high altitude has been the object of many investigations after experimental studies on animals showed that hypoxia at high altitude slows growth. Many studies have also looked at the Andean populations and found different results. Even though a few studies find that individuals living...
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Half a world : regional inequality in five great federations
Milanovic, Branko - 2005
"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations or quasi-federations composed of entities with substantial economic autonomy. Two types of...
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Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China
Amiti, Mary - 2005
"The authors examine the determinants of entry by foreign firms using information on 515 Chinese industries at the provincial level during 1998-2001. The analysis, rooted in the new economic geography, focuses on market and supplier access within and outside the province of entry, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522635
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Agglomeration, transport, and regional development in Indonesia
Deichmann, Uwe (contributor) - 2005
"How effective are public interventions in addressing significant regional disparities in formal manufacturing concentration in a developing economy? Deichmann, Kaiser, Lall, and Shalizi examine the aggregate and sectoral geographic concentration of manufacturing industries for Indonesia, and...
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Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting : how much does disaggregation help?
Elbers, Chris (contributor) - 2004
"Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their relative poverty status. They find large gains from...
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