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This paper investigates the extent of distortions in Russia's spatial economy that are inherited from the Soviet system. Using Canada as a benchmark for spatial dynamics of economic activity in a market economy, I construct the spatial allocation of population that would result in Russia, given...
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Based on first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971 in the Republic of...
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In this paper, the city rank-size hypothesis is tested for the urban system of the USSR and the Republic of Ukraine …
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-size distribution hypothesis and to expand the analysis initiated by Harris (1970) on the USSR. …
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National Economy of the USSR, 1923―24. In The Balance was exposed for the first time the modern principles of national …
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This paper analyzes the geographical patterns of city growth in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation in relation to the Stalinist policies of the 1930s to 1950s, and WWII. Using a unique data set on the locations of Gulag camps, and on the evacuation of industrial enterprises during WWII,...
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tourism and long-term economic growth. These studies have employed a variety of methodologies, models such as VAR, VECM, ARDL … Granger causality. This work shows that in the cases reviewed there is strong empirical evidence for the hypothesis of tourism …. Additionally, the study shows that the values of the elasticity of economic growth from tourism are significant different between …
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Tourism is increasingly being promoted as an important source of economic growth especially in developing countries …. While there are many elements that contribute to tourism growth, without an efficient air transport system, it is almost … international tourism. From the perspective of an African nation the most important question is whether the benefit of aviation …
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region should be based on active and multilevel cooperation among operators of the local tourism business environment. It is … rather high level of inertia of local authorities in creating appropriate conditions for tourism business development, thus …
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In Kerala, the revenue generated by tourism i assessed as 6.29% of GDP and the employment in tourism is estimated as 7 … basic infrastructure to support tourism and adopting a policy that i eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable says … Kerala's Tourism's ministrer in 2003. The importance of information technology in increasing in all the sectors. Tourism one …
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