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Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely … focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development … consequences of non-participation of the USA in the global coalition, and the associated distributional impacts world-wide …
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It is clear that the future of the transport sector is fraught withuncertainties, as the system can be influenced by many factors thatcan develop in various ways. The aim of this paper is to gain insightinto the future development of the transportation sector. It presentsthe development of the...
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The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …, and impacts are generally smaller in the U.S. than in other countries studied to date. From the policy perspective …
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means of network geometries, small-world effects and scale-free phenomena. We will illustrate these new developments on the …
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Many networks such as the Internet have been found to possess scale-free and small-world network properties reflected …. The present paper will examine and compare properties of telecommunications networks for both the United States and Europe …
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findings. The paper concludes with lessonsfor infrastructure policy. …
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The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
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One of the policy options to increase the efficiency in the provision of scarce water resources is a reduction in … basin authority for an efficient co-ordination of policy measures in the relevant area, (3) developing a coherent policy …
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This study aims to identify the critical factor(s) that determine the embeddedness level (EL) of rural entrepreneurs. In order to achieve this aim, existing applied studies on the embeddedness of entrepreneurs undertaken in different rural areas were systematically collected to create a database...
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Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...
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