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Geographical Constraints to Growth in Bolivia

Andersen, Lykke E.; Nina, Osvaldo - 2007

This paper seeks to test to which extent geographical constraints can be blamed for Bolivia s poor growth performance during the last three decades. Although geographical characteristics are too stable to explain the dramatic fluctuations in growth rates over time in Bolivia, there are at least...

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Geographical Constraints to Growth in Bolivia

Andersen, Lykke E.; Nina, Osvaldo - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2007

This paper seeks to test to which extent geographical constraints can be blamed for Bolivia’s poor growth performance during the last three decades. Although geographical characteristics are too stable to explain the dramatic fluctuations in growth rates over time in Bolivia, there are at...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021942

Local rates of new firm formation: An empirical exploration using Swedish data

Andersson, Martin; Lavesson, Niclas; Partridge, Mark D. - 2019

variables to address endogeneity, we find that local growth drives local entrepreneurship exclusively in services industries … skilled workers. We conclude that industry structure, geography and agglomeration matter, but in the end, new firms are … started by people, so it is unsurprising that the main factor driving local entrepreneurship is the characteristics of the …

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Local rates of new firm formation : an empirical exploration using Swedish data

Andersson, Martin; Lavesson, Niclas; Partridge, Mark D. - 2019

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Entrepreneurship, Evolution and Geography

Stam, Erik - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2009

This chapter is an inquiry into the role of entrepreneurship in evolutionary economic geography. The focus is on how … entrepreneurship in the theory of economic evolution. Next, we will review the empirical literature on the geography of … and why entrepreneurship is a distinctly spatially uneven process. We will start with a discussion on the role of …

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Emergence of Firms: A Sociogeographic Demand Side Perspective

Hellerstedt, Karin; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

geography and population ecology to the entrepreneurship literature as to present a theoretical framework that captures both …

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The rich, the clean, and the kind - a comprehensive wealth index for cities applied to the case of Germany

Dovern, Jonas; Quaas, Martin; Rickels, Wilfried - 2013

We develop a comprehensive wealth index for cities that measures their endowment with environmental, energy, social, human, and economic capital stocks. We apply this index to the 100 largest autonomous cities in Germany. We find that (i) a good economic performance does not need to come at the...

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Opportunity cost of environmental preservation: the case of the Brazilian Legal Amazon

Chagas, Andre; Andrade, Luiza - 2013

Currently, the region named Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) represents the agricultural frontier of Brazil, and it concentrates the deforestation processes, so-called arc of deforestation. This region covers the total area of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins, and...

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Social Economy, Entrepreneurship and local development: the case of 'Arcturos' environmental centre

Trikka, Margarita; Charitoudi, Georgia - 2013

The concept and the activities of social economy are not particularly developed in Greece. Several institutions have made some attempts to change that during the past few years but they failed due to the lack of the proper and flexible institutional frame that would administratively and...

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Global cities' Competitiveness factors among the Asian countries

Poreisz, Veronika; Rámháp, Szabolcs - 2014

Global cities' competitiveness factors among the Asian countries This article identifies the factors of global cities' competitiveness, focusing on Asian countries. First, it describes the importance of global cities in the economy, particularly those competiveness factors, which are originated...

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