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Regional human capital in Republican and New China: Its spread, quality and effects on economic growth
Van Leeuwen, Bas; van Leeuwen-Li, Jieli; Foldvari, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
less efficient. However, so far this question is difficult to analyse for China since we lack information on one of the … the provinces of China between 1922 and 2010. Using our new dataset, together with physical capital and per capita GDP …, whereas until the reform period China was largely driven by capital accumulation, afterwards general technical development got …
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Free Parking for All in Shopping Malls
Hasker, Kevin; Inci, Eren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We show why a shopping mall prefers to provide parking for free and embed the parking costs in the prices of the goods. This holds if the mall has monopoly power or prices competitively; if there is parking validation or a trade-off between shopping and parking spaces. It is also the second-best...
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Do Parking Requirements Significantly Increase The Area Dedicated To Parking? A Test Of The Effect Of Parking Requirements Values In Los Angeles County
Franco, Sofia; Cutter, Bowman; DeWoody, Autumn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Minimum parking requirements are the norm for urban and suburban development in the United States (Davidson and Dolnick (2002)). The justification for parking space requirements is that overflow parking will occupy nearby street or off-street parking. Shoup (1999) and Willson (1995) provides...
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Unfinished business: Customary Land Individualization in Olilit Village, Tanimbar Islands
Shantiko, Bayuni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This research discusses the transformation in customary tenure toward commercialization and appropriation in Olilit village, Tanimbar Islands. The study analyzes several factors leading to the customary institutional change. It also looks at the roles of actors shaping the changes and how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789815
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Land Use Rights and Productivity: Insights from a 2006 Rural Household Survey
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van den Broeck, Katleen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The aim of this article is the provide an overview of the distribution of land use (property) rights in 12 provinces in Vietnam and the productivity effect on plot level and whole farm rice growing . We show that land titles are indeed important. Only exclusively held titles have the expected...
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Do roads cause deforestation? Using satellite images in econometric analysis of land use
Nelson, Gerald; Hellerstein, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
In this paper we demonstrate how satellite images and other geographic data can be used to predict land use. A cross-section model of land use is estimated with data for a region in central Mexico. Parameters from the model are used to examine the effects of reduced human activity. If variables...
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Soybeans, Poverty and Inequality in the Brazilian Amazon
Weinhold, Diana; Killick, Evan; Reis, Eustaquio Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The recent growth of soybean cultivation in the Brazilian Amazon has been unprecedented, even as the debate continues over its economic and environmental consequences. Based on contemporary datasets as well as our own field studies, this paper examines the social and economic costs and benefits...
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Effects of urbanisation on multiple cropping pattern in coastal districts in India
Rode, Sanjay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Coastal area protects from natural disasters and provides livelihood to population. But over the period of time, industrialized has grown across the coastal area in India. Such industrialization has created higher employment opportunities. Educational achievements of the population of coastal...
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Monitoring payments for watershed services schemes in developing countries
Ina, Porras; Bruce, Alyward; Jeff, Dengel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Payments for watershed services (PWS) are schemes that use funds from water users (including governments) as an incentive for landholders to improve their land management practices. They are increasingly seen as a viable policy alternative to watershed management issues, and a means of...
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Unfinished business: customary land individualization in olilit village, tanimbar islands
Shantiko, Bayuni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This research discusses the transformation in customary tenure toward commercialization and appropriation in Olilit village, Tanimbar Islands. The study analyzes several factors leading to the customary institutional change. It also looks at the roles of actors shaping the changes and how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623222