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The European economy was of central importance for the worldwide economic development. In pre-industrial times all cultures were agrarian with few cities and similar income. This situation changed fundamentally with the industrialisation of Europe, which caused great income differences. This...
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The study of long term growth in Africa has recently been invigorated by the work of economists. To date, this literature has been motivated by explaining a divergence of income and has focussed on finding persistent factors that can explain a chronic failure of growth in Africa. This chapter...
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Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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This piece synthesizes the development strategies of Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam and draws some relevant …
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The main drivers of transformation processes of electricity markets stem from climate policies and changing economic environments. In order to analyse the respective developments, modelling approaches regularly rely on multiple structural and parametric simplifications. For example,...
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Tradable permits have already been applied in many areas of environmental policy and may be a possible response to increasing calls for flexible conservation instruments which are able to successfully conserve biodiversity while allowing for economic development. The idea behind applying...
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This paper shows how colonial powers permanently shaped the pattern of Chinese cities through the establishment of Concessions - foreign enclaves within Chinese cities. Based on a sample of 130 city districts within 10 Chinese cities, we find that districts with Concessions have higher land...
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686 people in the Hoang Lien National Park in Vietnam, we analyse the links in the suggested transmission mechanism. The …
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and estimate market risk for the ten major industries in Vietnam. The focus of … services, food, and telecommunications, targeted for economic development by the Vietnam Government through to 2020. The oil … Vietnam's major industries. For the stock market in Vietnam, the website used in this paper provided complete and detailed …
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This Special Issue publishes high quality papers on contemporary issues in business and economics in Vietnam and other … Asian emerging markets. These papers were accepted and presented at the 2019 Vietnam's Business and Economics Research … Conference (VBER2019) organized by Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Vietnam in July 2019. Emerging issues in business and …
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