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Hukou and Highways : The Impact of China?S Spatial Development Policies on Urbanization and Regional Inequality
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2017
China has used two main spatial policies to shape its geographic patterns of development: restricted labor mobility through the Hukou residential registration system and massive infrastructure investment, notably a 96,000 kilometer national expressway network. This paper develops a structural...
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Regional Development Overview : Challenges, Adopted Strategies, and New Initiatives
Jackson, Randall W. - 2019
Despite the increasing attention in recent years to the spatial dimensions of economic development, consideration of the importance of space and the recognition that macro, aspatial perspectives can prove to be misleading are not new. Around the world, much of the disappointment with the...
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Regional Subsidies and Industrial Prospects of Lagging Regions
Lall, Somik V. - 2016
Large and sustained differences in economic performance across regions of developing countries have long provided motivation for fiscal incentives designed to encourage firm entry in lagging areas. But empirical evidence in support of these policies has been weak at best. The authors undertake a...
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Regional Subsidies and Industrial Prospects of Lagging Regions
Carvalho, Alexandre; Lall, Somik V.; Timmins, Christopher - 2006
Large and sustained differences in economic performance across regions of developing countries have long provided motivation for fiscal incentives designed to encourage firm entry in lagging areas. But empirical evidence in support of these policies has been weak at best. The authors undertake a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056802
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Spatial Development and Agglomeration Economies in Services -- Lessons from India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by comparing and contrasting the spatial development of services with that in …
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Does Local Financial Development Matter for Firm Lifecycle in India?
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
The differences in financial development across Indian states, while seeming substantial, have a minor effect on firm lifecycle and growth. These results hold controlling for differences in labor regulations across states, capital intensity, and for firms born before and after the major reforms....
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The Spatial Development of India
Desmet, Klaus - 2017
benefits accruing to them. India's mega-cities have continued to grow. This situation raises a number of important policy … questions. Should India aim to spread development more equally across space? Are India's cities becoming too large? Should the … is India?s experience compared with China and USA? …
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Place-Based Policies for Development
Duranton, Gilles - 2018
Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place-based." Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and economic growth in the treated place, and as such they are difficult to appraise and evaluate....
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Spatial Gaps in Management Quality : Evidence from a Lagging Region in Croatia
Goswami, Arti Grover - 2020
Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this report finds that: (i) relative to the rest of Croatia, an average firm in the lagging region of the country (Eastern Croatia) is only slightly behind in the adoption of structured management...
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Local Foundations for Better Governance : A Review of Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao's Localizing Development
Myerson, Roger - 2017
In Localizing Development, Mansuri and Rao survey theory and evidence for development strategies based on local community empowerment. This note extends their theoretical argument by focusing on local government as a vital source of new leadership. Local leaders who provide better public service...
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