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“Malthus living in a slum: urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth”
Castells-Quintana, David - Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada (IREA), … - 2015
infrastructure, essentially access to basic urban services. The main contribution of the paper is to therefore provide empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124424
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Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - European Regional Science Association - 2014
urban environment - in particular the quality of urban infrastructure - strongly determine the growth-enhancing benefits of … empirically). We analyse several measures of urban infrastructure and look at different world regions, taking a special focus on … to significant deficiencies in terms of urban infrastructure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075896
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“Malthus living in a slum: urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth”
Castells-Quintana, David - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2015
infrastructure, essentially access to basic urban services. The main contribution of the paper is to therefore provide empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194345
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Liberalisation, the stock market and the market for corporate control: a bridge too far for the Indian economy?
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
reviews the stockmarket reforms and comments on the available evidence on the effects of stockmarket expansion on corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112562
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Urbanization in Arunachal Pradesh: Trends and Patterns 1961-2000
Mandal, Ram Krishna - In: Journal of Global Economy 5 (2009) 4, pp. 320-340
An overview of the process of urbanization in the State of Arunachal Pradesh during the last two decades brings out the inadequacy of the existing institutional structure in managing urban centers in the “borderless” world of today. These institutions are noted to have least capacity to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011127672
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CREATIVE ECONOMY. DETERMINANTS AND STAKES OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT. REGIONAL INGRESSIONS
MARTA-CHRISTINA, SUCIU; MAGDALENA, PLATIS IORDACHE; … - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 2 (2009) 1, pp. 208-212
Within the framework of creative economy the creative and innovative management represents a strategic issue to consider when stimulating the enhancement of competitiveness among companies and countries. Creativity, innovation and new product development
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511875
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Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa
Jedwab, Remi; Moradi, Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013
What is the impact of modern transportation technology on long-run economic change in poor countries with high trade costs?  Rail construction in colonial Sub-Saharan Africa provides a natural experiment: 90% of African rail-road lines were built before independence, in a context where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159004
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From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628324
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The development of the brazilian amazon region and greenhouse gases emission: a dilemma to be faced!
Imori, Denise; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; David, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The purpose of this work is to verify the existence of possible tradeoffs between policies direct to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) with the ones direct to foster the development of the Brazilian Amazon Region, which is one of the poorest in the country. In order to achieve this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025250
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Spatial Effects in Convergence of Portuguese Product
Martinho, Vítor - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011
This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in the conditional product convergence in the parishes? economies of mainland Portugal between 1991 and 2001 (the last year with data available for this spatial disaggregation level). To analyse the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143407