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Direct water requirement patterns in Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica : a structural decomposition analysis

Naspolini, Giovanna Ferrazzo; Libra, Jesse; Cunial, Santiago - 2024

Water is not only vital for human life but also is a critical economic input. Climate change will likely exacerbate conflicts over the multiple uses of water in Latin America. Adopting a south-south perspective approach, this study compares direct water requirement patterns over time among...

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Industrial clusters and economic performance in Brazil

Pires, José Claudio Linhares; Cravo, Túlio; Lodato, Simon - 2013

Industrial clusters, which are commonly targeted to receive financial support allocated to locally based development projects, are seen as an effective industrial policy tool for improving productivity and generating employment. Nevertheless, identifying clusters and assessing their economic...

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The heterogeneous impacts of higher education institutions on regional firm location : evidence from the Swiss universities of applied sciences

Schlegel, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2021 - Preliminary version

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Output quality and sources of profit change in the English and welsh water and sewerage companies

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of profit change over the period 1991-2008 for the Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry. We firstly apply an input oriented profit decomposition approach following the approach of De Witte & Saal...

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Profit, productivity and price performance changes in the English and welsh water and sewerage companies

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2012

companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales. We apply a panel index approach across WaSCs over time to decompose unit …

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A retrospective stated preference approach to assessment of coastal infrastructure investments : an application to Barbados

Banerjee, Onil; Boyle, Kevin J.; Rogers, Cassandra T.; … - 2016

Ex-post economic impact evaluations are standard requirements for loans and grants from multilateral international development institutions. In many cases, however, lack of sufficient baseline or historical data, or the very nature of the investment itself renders orthodox economic impact...

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Tax incentives and job creation in the tourism industry of Brazil

Garsous, Grégoire; Novoa, David Corderi; Velasco, Mercedes - 2015

tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …

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Economic and environmental sustainability : a dynamic approach in insular systems

Cavallaro, Fausto; Ciraolo, Luigi - 2002

Environmental resources constitute the 'raw materials' for tourism. This sector represents the driving force behind the …. This work systematically examines the effects and the feedbacks that the economy of tourism may generate in small areas …

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Effects of tourism upon the economy of small and medium-sized European cities : cultural tourists and "the others"

Del Corpo, Barbara; Gasparino, Ugo; Bellini, Elena; … - 2008

the 6th FP project PICTURE (Pro-active management of the Impact of Cultural Tourism upon Urban Resources and Economies …), in order to quantify the monetary impact of cultural tourism upon urban economies. The analysis was carried out in two … understanding how different sectors of local economy and society can benefit from tourism and in determining how to maximise, or …

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The effect of climate change and extreme weather events on tourism

Bigano, Andrea; Goria, Alessandra; Hamilton, Jacqueline M. - 2005

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