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Has emerging Asia decoupled? An analysis of production and trade linkages using the Asian international input-output table
Pula, Gabor; Peltonen, Tuomas A. - 2009
linkages. According to the results, we do not find evidence of the decoupling of emerging Asia from the rest of the world. On …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605039
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Macroeconomic vulnerability in developing countries: Approaches and issues
Seth, Anuradha; Ragab, Amr - 2012
build resilience and protect themselves from development reversals has become all the more urgent. Not surprisingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293290
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Snakes and ladders, buffers and passports: Rethinking poverty, vulnerability and wellbeing
Sumner, Andy; Mallett, Rich - 2011
Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households experience multiple, interacting and sometimes compound vulnerabilities. Cross-disciplinary thinking is emerging as multi-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly...
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The Great Recession versus the Great Depression: stylized facts on siblings that were given different foster parents
Aiginger, Karl - 2010
This paper compares the depth of the Recent Crisis and the Great Depression. We use a new data set to compare the drop in activity in the industrialized countries for seven activity indicators. This is done under the assumption that the Recent Crisis leveled off in mid-2009 for production and...
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Clusters for life or life cycles of clusters: Critical factors for resilience
Suire, Raphael; Vicente, Jerome - 2010
they display resilience properties. Key-words : cluster, cycle, location externalities, knowledge, structural properties …, resilience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332289
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Quality of life and international standardization in the field of sustainable development of communities
Avanesov, Evgeny - 2014
resilience in communities. In order to efficiently organize the works on benchmarking and standardization in the field of … communities to develop a strategy for ensuring sustainable development and resilience, establish objectives and processes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399971
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The importance of endogenous capacities and government support in the resilience of regions
Eraydin, Ayda - 2014
The importance of endogenous capacities and government support in the resilience of regions The paper aims to discuss … resilience that enable regions to respond and recover from economic crisis conditions. Therefore, the paper focuses three major … that identifies the different levels of resilience of Turkish regions and the compares the importance of endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400173
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Economic crisis and innovation: Do regions matter?
Holl, Adelheid; Rama, Ruth - 2015
There is broad agreement among economists and policy makers that economic growth is nowadays largely driven by the capacity of firms to innovate. The financial and economic crisis that started in late 2007 has had a far reaching impact on countries around the world. Spain has been one of the...
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Assessing resilience in tourism: The case of Greece
Karoulia, Stella; Gaki, Eleni; Kostopoulou, Stella - 2015
During the last decade a new concept has emerged in the regional science debate, the notion of regional resilience … disturbance does not stand as an obstacle to the region¢s development. Regional resilience is characterized by the capacity of a …, robustness and rapidity. The aim of this paper is to explore the notion of resilience in the tourism industry. Tourism, an …
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Do youth mentoring programs change the perspectives and improve the life opportunities of at-risk youth?
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Mentoring programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America have been providing positive role models and building social skills for more than a century. However, most formal mentoring programs are relatively novel and researchers have only recently begun to rigorously evaluate their impact on...
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