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Local Economic Development Policies
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2003
This chapter seeks to provide useful advice for local government policy towards economic development programs. The chapter: reviews the size and scope of local economic development programs in the United States; critically analyzes the various rationales offered for these programs; makes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763255
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Sport Tourism: Regional Promotion Strategies
Ribeiro, José Cadima; Viseu, José; Pereira, Nuno - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2004
The main purposes of this paper are (i) to analyze the regional promotion strategies of the UEFA Euro 2004 and (ii) to … contribute for the improvement of planning and implementation strategies of tourism marketing at regional level. Data regarding …, the present study contains something new as it introduces an ante analysis on the regional pronotion strategies of major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771612
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Incentive Solutions
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2004
This paper reviews the research literature relevant to economic development incentives provided by state and local governments, and recommends reforms in these incentives. I argue that the main problem with current incentive policies is that state and local governments often provide incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763263
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains: Implications for local suppliers in Zambia
Ziba, Francis; Phiri, Mwanda - 2017
supermarket value chains and how those firms' participation might stimulate growth through regional trade. Our results show that … local processing firms' participation in regional supermarket value chains is constrained by a number of factors that pose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688559
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Modelling Manufactured Exports: Evidence from Australian States
Norman, David - Reserve Bank of Australia - 2006
This paper looks at the determinants of national manufactured exports through the use of a panel of Australian states. The panel approach is taken to assess whether the coefficient instability present in direct estimates of export elasticities can be alleviated by utilising the cross-state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125140
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Regional Corridors Development in Regional Cooperation
Srivastava, Pradeep - 2011
Regional corridors are popular components of regional cooperation initiatives and have been in use for several years … terms of content and implications. This paper elaborates on a simple framework for regional corridors development in the … context of regional cooperation, anchored on two dimensions of these corridors: the extent to which they are national or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507325
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains : implications for local suppliers in Zambia
Ziba, Francis; Phiri, Mwanda - 2017
supermarket value chains and how those firms' participation might stimulate growth through regional trade. Our results show that … local processing firms' participation in regional supermarket value chains is constrained by a number of factors that pose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011627744
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Regional corridors development in regional cooperation
Srivastava, Pradeep - 2011
Regional corridors are popular components of regional cooperation initiatives and have been in use for several years … terms of content and implications. This paper elaborates on a simple framework for regional corridors development in the … context of regional cooperation, anchored on two dimensions of these corridors: the extent to which they are national or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301889
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Evaluating the Impacts of Local Economic Development Policies On Local Economic Outcomes: What Has Been Done and What is Doable?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2002
This paper argues that more rigorous evaluations of local economic development policies are feasible. Programs that aid selected small firms can be rigorously evaluated using an experimental approach, without excluding firms from assistance, by randomly assigning some firms to receive more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763253
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Investment scenarios and regional factors in the solar energy sector
Liarnkobas, Panagiōtēs; Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos - In: Economics and Business Letters : EBL 5 (2016) 3, pp. 95-104
This paper examines the effects of regional factors related to macroeconomic, environmental and energy data in relation … to regional investment attractiveness to the Greek solar energy sec-tor. Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process method …, the paper explores the significance of some criteria with reference to the regional investment attractiveness of solar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573574