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Nationalism and development in Asia
Duara, Prasenjit - 2018
also dialectically reshaped the goals and patterns of development during the post-Second World War period. The region is … within a region. More recently, a common transregional pattern has emerged with neoliberal globalization being accompanied by …
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Social transfers and growth : the missing evidence from luminosity data
Villa, Juan M. - 2014
The effects of social transfers on growth are still unclear. The limitations of aggregated data at sub-national levels have confined the analysis to the use of simulation models and household surveys. As an alternative, this paper contributes to the empirical literature by assessing the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357952
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Evolving city systems
Overman, Henry G.; Venables, Anthony - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on the forces driving urbanization in developing countries. It presents a model outlining how globalization can lead to the evolution of an urban structure which may approximate Zipf's law. Policy implications are outlined. -- urbanization ; globalization ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661316
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The Brazilian regional development funds and economic growth : a spatial panel approach
Cravo, Túlio A.; Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2015
The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392771
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Approaches to supporting local and community development : Brazil and the Vale SA model of corporate interaction
Filgueiras, Liesel; Rabetim, Andreia; Aché, Isabel - 2017
society. To this end, the case of Canaã dos Carajás will be introduced, a municipality in the State of Pará, Amazon region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646295
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Globalizing Shanghai : international migration and the global city
Shen, Wei - 2010
Cities are the focal point for the mobility of talents, located between the nations and firms, states and educational institutions. Shanghai, being regarded as the 'ultimate poster-child for the effects of globalization on cities and regions' by the BBC (2007), the city is argued as the best...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662259
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Night lights and regional income inequality in Africa
Mveyange, Anthony - 2015
Estimating regional income inequality in Africa has been challenging due to the lack of reliable and consistent sub-national income data. I employ night lights data to circumvent this limitation. I find significant and positive associations between regional inequality visible through night...
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The rise and fall of decentralization in contemporary Uganda
Green, Elliott D. - 2013
There has long been an emphasis on the importance of decentralization in providing better quality public services in … the developing world. In order to assess the effectiveness of decentralization I examine here the case study of Uganda …, which has seen major decentralization of power over the last quarter-century. Initial excitement about Uganda …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784725
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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2016
. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539434
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Connections and the allocation of public benefits
Newman, Carol; Zhang, Mengyang - 2015
We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes. Using panel data from Vietnam we find evidence that households with connections to local government are more likely to be classified as poor, the main determinant of whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488850