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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of non-neighboring cities, although this is due primarily to neighbors' tendency to be in the same state. In...
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The infrastructure (transport) is essential for the economic development of a region. If we are taking into … consideration the tourism industry and other tourist activities, the importance of the infrastructure is higher, due to the fact … administration plays a huge role in developing projects for improving the infrastructure or for rehabilitating it. We are presenting …
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic development of Pakistan. A … composite index of physical infrastructure has been constructed through Principal Component Analysis. This has been done by … taking into account three different dimensions of infrastructure i.e. transportation infrastructure, energy infrastructure …
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The article reviews the elements of the Marshall Plan after World War II, and relates its positive features to economic challenges of the end of the 20th century.
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During the last 50 years with unprecedented population growth and urbanization, economic development, particularly in developing countries failed to generate adequate employment and income opportunities in the modern sector, compelling the surplus labour force to generate its own means of...
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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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Agency (FEMA) spending on rehabilitating or rebuilding infrastructure in post-disaster relief efforts. In this exploratory …
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The aim of this paper is to present an Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) as a possible remedy for telecom infrastructure …
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The removal of infrastructure bottlenecks is widely considered among the most profitable interventions, in socio …
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This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using … the measure of corruption in the macro data and the measures of transportation and electricity infrastructure. Countries … with more corruption tend to have worse infrastructure in the eyes of their firms. This link is shown to remain when one …
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