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The history of the Netherlands reveals major shifts from centralisation of government tasks towards decentralisation and vice versa. In the seventeenth century, the Republic of United Provinces was the first federal state in modern history. Many transformations later the Kingdom of the...
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regional newspapers, although there is neither a constant reference to the European context nor a strategy for people … between Romania and Hungary are widely reflected in the regional press of Bihor County, and the articles cover subjects like … European Union, financing programs for the cross-border cooperation and regional development, cooperation between the local …
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Because of policy relevance of regional input-output analysis, a vast literature on the construction of regional input …-output tables has emerged in the recent past, especially on the non-survey and hybrid methods. Although, construction of regional … approach to generate the forty two sector regional input-output table for the state of Punjab for 2006-07. …
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This paper summarizes “The Center and the Periphery: The Globalization of Financial Shocks," which presents a new approach to measure and understand systemic financial turbulences. We defined two measures of systemic disturbances: weak- and strong-form globalization and created the...
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Despite globalization which often tends to serves its own interest through fast capital movement, maximization of profit, cost cutting and global mind making, each country is on its own path to future. This path is paved with past achievements, government decision about taxation, privatization,...
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Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore,...
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Southern Sudan - the ten southern provinces of Sudan - has attained autonomy and may soon achieve total independence from Sudan. Yet decades of civil war not only prevented development but destroyed the infrastructure left over from the colonial period. While Southern Sudan is fortunate to have...
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Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This … planks of balanced regional development. …
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If localized knowledge spillovers are present in the university setting, higher rates of both start-ups and/or survival than in the broader economy would be observed in areas that are geographically proximate to the university. Using a fully-disclosed Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for...
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The urban development process intends to enhance urban equipment, infrastructure and services to improve urban conditions and reduce inequalities. While planning activities usually demand a sizeable amount of data to assess these conditions, it is hard to find a straightforward procedure to...
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