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As public policies seek to advance deployment of enhanced broadband infrastructure as a means of acquiring economic advantage, the issue has arisen of the extent that additional economic performance accrues from increases in headline bandwidth speed in locations that are physically remote from...
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The present study examines the economic development of the NUTS-2 level regions in the EU-27 from 1995 to 2003. It focuses on income and employment developments in the regions of the new EU Member States (NMS) and compares the results to the developments in the regions of Northern as well as...
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This paper studies the impact of the rapid expansion of the Brazilian road network, which occurred from the 1960s to the 2000s, on the growth and spatial allocation of population and economic activity across the country's municipalities. It addresses the problem of endogeneity in infrastructure...
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This paper focuses on manufacturing employment growth across the 26 states of Brazil. We employ the Glaeser et al … into the rapid growth since 1981 in particularly the North and Centre West of Brazil. …
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geographical microregions of Brazil. This purpose is achieved by using exploratory spatial data analysis. This paper is pioneer in … the existence of North-South polarization regime in terms of technological activity in Brazil. Local indicators of spatial …
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Brazilian companies in Portugal, two countries with deep cultural affinity. Brazil is an emerging country that is increasing … world economy, Brazil as international investor and the luso-Brazilian economic relations, especially after 1990s. Secondly …
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Brazilian companies in Portugal, two countries with deep cultural affinity. Brazil is an emerging country that is increasing … world economy, Brazil as international investor and the luso-Brazilian economic relations, especially after 1990s. Secondly …
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In this paper, we study the hitherto unexplored evolution of the size distribution of 185 urban areas in Brazil between …
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industrial compositions in cities of Brazil induced by substantial trade liberalization in this country during the 1990s. A … countries such as Brazil, with already non-uniform distribution of economic development across regions, create geographical …
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states of Brazil. The classic shift-share method shows higher employment growth rates for underdeveloped regions that are due …. Considering that until the 1960s economic activities were more concentrated in southern regions of Brazil than they are nowadays …
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