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Brain Drain: Some Evidence from European Expatriates in the United States, Dinner Speech by Günther Beckstein
Beckstein, Günther - In: CESifo Forum 9 (2008) 3, pp. 28-29
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Brain Drain: Some Evidence from European Expatriates in the United States, Introduction by Gilles Saint-Paul
Saint-Paul, Gilles - In: CESifo Forum 9 (2008) 3, pp. 19-27
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Education and the Journey to the Core: Path-dependence or Leapfrogging?
Mehta, Aashish; Felipe, Jesus - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2014
We study changes in 130 countries’ indices of revealed comparative advantage for 1,240 products between 1995 and 2010, to answer: (i) whether export diversification is path-dependent, and whether it is more difficult to diversify into more sophisticated products; and (ii) whether education...
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Small towns as centres of rural micro-regions
Antonín, Vaishar; Jana, Zapletalová - In: European Countryside 1 (2009) 2, pp. 70-81
Small towns ensure services on the basic urban level, jobs, social contacts, occasions to travel outside the micro-region, services of the state administration and sometimes also an identity of the micro-region. Mass commuting from villages to small towns is usual for Czechia for a long time....
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Policy Options to Durably Resolve Euro Area Imbalances
Guillemette, Yvan; Turner, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
balances required in the euro area periphery to bring structural current account balances to levels compatible with sustainable …
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Cyprus and Europe: Geo-economics of a Relationship or Putting the ¡°Periphery¡± into Context
Arisoy, Alper - In: Research in World Economy 5 (2014) 2, pp. 198-207
, through which this relationship has evolved. Accordingly, the main questions to be addressed are as follows: is the core-periphery …? Drawing upon some basic concepts such as core-periphery dichotomy, insularity, isolation and connectivity, the main argument …, has also started to shift. The island has turned into a periphery of this new core. However, this shift brought about also …
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Cyclical Development of Empires - an Application of Krugman's Theory
Eszterhai, Viktor - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 5 (2007) 1, pp. 48-55
The study of empires' development has prided itself on great traditions in historical sciences. However, understanding the development courses meets difficulties if the geographical environment is disregarded. In my opinion, with the help of studying the geographical environment and also...
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Small towns as centres of rural micro-regions
Vaishar Antonín; Zapletalová Jana - In: European Countryside 1 (2009) 2, pp. 70-81
Small towns ensure services on the basic urban level, jobs, social contacts, occasions to travel outside the micro-region, services of the state administration and sometimes also an identity of the micro-region. Mass commuting from villages to small towns is usual for Czechia for a long time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010534468
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Balancing private sector development and local-central relations
Andriesse, Edo - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 16 (2009) 1, pp. 93-114
Although academics, civil servants and non-governmental organizations involved in development have continued to promote policies for local economies, many localities fail to catch up with average national development patterns. The body of knowledge on this topic has been split into two parts:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009394025
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Russia's Economic Space in the Context of Global Financial and Economic Crisis
Vardomsky, L. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association (2009) 3-4, pp. 145-165
Structural changes in Russia's economic space are caused mainly by processes in the global economy. The world crisis has changed the Russian spatial mode of development since financial resources were dramatically reduced. Trends of spatial development during the period of economic growth and at...
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