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The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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and dominant Center and a backward and subordinate Periphery. A period of decentralization follows from 1950 to 1990, when … most segments of the Periphery regained various levels of control over their economies. Since the early 1990s, the forces …
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and creation of degenerated periphery. Nonetheless, there is no strong evidence that urbanization is associated with …
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This work presents 3 case studies from the Czech Republic based on a long term qualitative research. The main issue under study is a description of peripheral municipalities and their neighbors in terms of everyday life, history and future of these places.
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The volume From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe gathers the papers presented … distances between centre and periphery and their common traits as well, as they are revealed in the various images of Europe and … propose a double perspective: on the one hand periphery viewed from the centre and on the other periphery as it sees itself …
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The paper analyses changes experienced by Spain, as a European Peripheral region, in the spatial concentration of value-added and high-skill activities, and generation of technology in the automobile components industry. The analysis of plants set up (investments) and relocated (divestments) by...
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There is a major downward bias in the trend of most existing estimates of the periphery’s nineteenth-century terms of … Williamson’s recent work. Measured correctly, the periphery’s nineteenth-century terms-of-trade boom would appear considerably …
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Using CIS data from the Netherlands, Germany and France we test whether EU Framework programs do have effects on their …
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welfare regime types, the ‘Liberal’ US, ‘the ‘Corporatist’ Germany and the ‘Social-Democratic’ Netherlands. That paper was …
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