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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013
By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
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Natural resources, economic growth and geography
González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - 2018
new economic geography. We find that an increase in the world growth rate can lead to a higher depletion of the natural … resources following an increase in the world demand due to expansion in population. However, the consideration of geography and … conclusion when the forces behind growth are different from world demand. Indeed, either a reduction in transport costs or an …
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Is temperature adversely related to economic growth? : evidence on the short-run and the long-run links from sub-national data
Meierrieks, Daniel; Stadelmann, David - 2021
We investigate the effect of rising temperatures on economic development, using sub-national data for approximately 1,500 sub-national regions in 81 countries from the 1950s to the 2010s. Accounting for region- and time-fixed factors by means of a two-way fixed effects panel approach, we find no...
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Reimagining India's urban future : a framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India
Tewari, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015
India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to nearly double from 377 million today to over 600 million. Indian cities already contribute an estimated two-thirds of India's GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by...
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Impact of climate change on economic growth : a case study of India
Sandhani, Medhavi; Pattanayak, Anubhab; Kumar, K. S. Kavi - 2020
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Economic growth and income inequality in resource countries : theory and evidence
Reisinezhad, Arsham - 2018
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The macroeconomic cost of climate volatility
Alessandri, Piergiorgio; Mumtaz, Haroon - 2021
We study the impact of climate volatility on economic growth exploiting data on 133 countries between 1960 and 2005. We show that the conditional (ex ante) volatility of annual temperatures increased steadily over time, rendering climate conditions less predictable across countries, with...
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Knowledge networks in joint research projects, innovation and economic growth across European regions
Di Cagno, Daniela; Fabrizi, Andrea; Marini, Marco; … - 2021
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Artificial intelligence and economic growth
Jones, Charles I.; Aghion, Philippe; Jones, Benjamin F. - 2017 - October 10, 2017 - Version 1.0
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Climate change and Kuznets curve : Portuguese experience
Leitão, Nuno Carlos - 2018
Climate change has inspired the interest of the academic community in the most diverse areas of knowledge. This study tests and revisits the environmental Kuznets curve assumptions for Portugal. The econometric strategy used in this research is time series (ARIMA model, OLS estimator, ARCH...
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