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The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean Title: El impacto de China: Oportunidades y retos para América Latina y el Caribe
Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés; Devlin, Robert; … - Inter-American Development Bank
China's size, rapid growth, external openness, and trade performance have led to varying perceptions among the countries of Latin America: Is China a potential new market, a potent new competitor, or both? This book assesses the near-term strategic implications of China's economic performance...
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Is Geography Destiny?: Lessons from Latin America
Lora, Eduardo; Gaviria, Alejandro; Gallup, John Luke - Inter-American Development Bank
For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that, since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies … racist, made the subject a virtual taboo in academic and policymaking circles alike. "Is Geography Destiny?" challenges that … premise and joins a growing body of literature studying the links between geography and development. Focusing on Latin America …
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Development Beyond Economics Title: Desarrollo más allá de la economía
Duryea, Suzanne; Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Piras, Claudia; … - Inter-American Development Bank
, geography and institutions- that are closely connected to economic and social development. Historical in nature and slow to …
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Nouvelles entreprises de biotechnologies et géographie de l'innovation, des fondateurs à leur modèle d'entreprise
Catherine, David; Corolleur, Frédéric - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2001) 5, pp. 785-808
This article proposes an analytical framework regarding the geography of innovation by Dedicated Biotechnology Firms …
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La dimension spatiale des collaborations pour l'innovation : une analyse sur données CIFRE (1981-2006)
Bouba-Olga, Olivier; Ferru, Marie - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine juin (2011) 3, pp. 449-468
The aim of this paper is to provide new insights about the dynamic of the geography of knowledge collaborations and … highlights the potential roles in the geography of collaborations of both, the geography of resources and the history of …, in a second part, two complementary econometric tests. Three important results are revealing : the geography of …
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PRIO-GRID: A unified spatial data structure
Tollefsen, Andreas Forø; Strand, Håvard; Buhaug, Halvard - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 2, pp. 363-374
Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates geographic information systems (GIS) skills and imposes new challenges for data collection and analysis. So far,...
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Organizational legacies of violence
Daly, Sarah Zukerman - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 3, pp. 473-491
reorientation away from physical geography and back to the human and social geography that determines if rebellion is …
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‘Capital punishment’
Butcher, Charles - In: Journal of Peace Research 52 (2015) 2, pp. 171-186
Civil wars show substantial variation in where they are fought. One dimension of this variation is the proximity of fighting to the capital city. While some wars are fought in the periphery, others devastate capital cities, often for months, or years, on end. What explains this? This article...
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Géographie et transports publics locaux
Alderighi, Marco; Gorla, Gianluigi - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine février (2013) 1, pp. 163-178
This paper investigates how geography affects the performance of local public transport firms in Italy. Using data on …
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L'émergence et l'évolution des études et science régionales au Québec (1908-2008) Des liens et des lieux
Lafontaine, Danielle - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2012) 4, pp. 555-595
roots and bearers, their institutional academic bases within geography, economics, sociology, planning, and other fields …
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