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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2008
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268707
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Exploring the knowledge filter: how entrepreneurship and university-industry relations drive economic growth
Mueller, Pamela - 2005
Knowledge is recognized as a crucial element of economic growth in addition to physical capital and labor. Knowledge can be transformed into products and processes and is, in this way, exploited commercially. The ability to produce, identify, and exploit knowledge depends on the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298518
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Finance and growth in a bank-based economy: is it quantity or quality that matters?
Koetter, Michael; Wedow, Michael - 2006
With this paper we seek to contribute to the literature on the relation between finance and growth. We argue that most studies in the field fail to measure the quality of financial intermediation but rather resort to using proxies on the size of financial systems. Moreover, cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295910
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International integration and regional development in China
Gries, Thomas; Redlin, Margarete - 2008
Concerns about the duration of China's growth and hence the question of a permanent significant contribution of China … to world economic growth relate, amongst other things, to the problem of reducing regional disparity in China. While … China's high average growth is driven by a small number of rapidly developing provinces, the majority of provinces have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273441
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Comparing regional development in China and India
Wu, Yanrui - 2008
Economic growth in China and India has attracted many headlines recently. As a result, the literature comparing the two … the regions of China and India over the past twenty years. It also provides an assessment of regional disparity in the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284653
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High-Speed Rail & Air Transport Competition
Adler, Nicole; Nash, Chris; Pels, Eric - 2008
This paper develops a methodology to assess transport infrastructure investments and their effects on a Nash equilibria taking into account competition between multiple privatized transport operator types. The operators, including high-speed rail, hub and spoke legacy airlines and low cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325992
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Long-distance passenger rail services: Review and improvement
Endemann, Peter - In: Spatial and transport infrastructure development in …, (pp. 156-174). 2019
hohe Investitionen in den Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr auf der Schiene erreicht werden können. Darüber hinaus kann durch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153748
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng - 2007
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273849
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Sustainable Development Framework for Local Governance
Yap, Josef T.; Cabalfin, Michael R. - 2008
Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty reduction, human development, sustainable development, and more recently to institutional development. There has also been a fresh look at industrial policy and the role of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421120
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Accessibility Indicators for Regional Economic Development: An Application to the Regional Distributive Effects of High-Speed Rail in Spain
Chen, Guineng; Correia, Marcos; de Abreu e Silva, João - 2015
The inauguration of a HSR line increases the accessibility to people, resources, goods, and markets, which brings locational advantages, thus attracting new households, economic activities, allowing greater agglomerations. Intuitively, the locations where the accessibility increases higher than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400450