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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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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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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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Cities: Places of new European prosperity. Compendium of case studies on the socio-ecological transition of urban commons

Sauer, Thomas; Elsen, Susanne; Kuhn, Stefan; Barnebeck, … - 2015

Taking into account the potentially different starting and framework conditions of regions in different parts of the European Union, we will present a new approach for sustainability transition analysis. We hypothesise: favourable overall institutional conditions, such as a high degree of formal...

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Regional competitiveness under new perspectives

Aiginger, Karl; Firgo, Matthias - 2015

The term "competitiveness" has been used in conceptually distinct ways at the firm, regional and national levels. After primarily reviewing existing concepts at the national level, we introduce a new definition of regional competitiveness adapting definitions used in the academic literature....

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Taxonomy of implemented policy instruments to foster the production of green technologies and improve environmental and economic performance

Crespi, Francesco; Ghisetti, Claudia; Quatraro, Francesco - 2015

The Europe 2020 Strategy has identified the key goal of smart, more inclusive and sustainable growth. In this direction, redirecting firms’ innovation activities towards ecological targets without hampering their competitiveness is of paramount importance. The double externality issue related...

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Regulatory push-pull effects on innovation: an evaluation of the effects of the REACH regulation on patents in the chemical sector

Ghisetti, Claudia; Quatraro, Francesco - 2015

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