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The impact of business environment and economic geography on plant-level productivity : an analysis of Indian industry
Lall, Somik V. - 2005
"The authors' analysis of manufacturing plants sampled from India's major industrial centers shows large productivity gaps across cities. The gaps partly reflect differences in agglomeration economies and in market access. However, they are also explained to a greater extent by differences in...
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Location, concentration, and performance of economic activity in Brazil
Funderburg, Richard G. - 2004
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Diversity matters : the economic geography of industry location in India
Koo, Jun - 2003
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Local economic structure and growth
Almeida, Rita - 2005
"The author tests how the local economic structure-measured by a region's sector specialization, competition, and diversity-affects the technological growth of manufacturing sectors. Most of the empirical literature on this topic assumes that in the long run more productive regions will attract...
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Metropolitan industrial clusters : patterns and processes
Koo, Jun - 2003
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The mix of international banks' foreign claims : determinants and implications
García-Herrero, Alicia - 2005
"The authors analyze the determinants and implications for financial stability of the mix of international banks' claims countries receive. In particular, they distinguish between local claims, extended by international banks through their affiliates in a host (or claim recipient) country, and...
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Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management : the Guadalquivir River Basin, Spain
Bhat, Anjali (contributor) - 2005
"The authors describe and analyze river basin management in the Guadalquivir River Basin in Spain. The Guadalquivir … river flows westerly across southern Spain, with nearly all of its 57,017 km2 drainage area within the region of Andalusia … water user participation. Following the Spanish political system's transformation and Spain's accession to the European …
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Reforms and infrastructure efficiency in Spain's container ports
Trujillo, Lourdes - 2005
"Serrano and Trujillo quantify the evolution of technical efficiency in port infrastructure service provision in the major Spanish port authorities involved in container traffic. They also analyze the extent to which port reforms that took place in the 1990s had an impact on the efficiency of...
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Institutional frameworks in successful water markets : Brazil, Spain, and Colorado, USA
Kemper, Karin E. (contributor); Mariño, Manuel (contributor) - 1999
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China - Meeting the Challenges of Offshore and Large-Scale Wind Power : Regulatory Review of Offshore Wind in Five European Countries
World Bank - 2012
The objective of this study is to review international experience in offshore wind power development and draw on the lessons learned from the experience of different countries. To date, that experience has predominantly been limited to Europe. Significantly different regulatory and physical...
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