Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

Uppsatsen behandlar äganderättsbegreppets förändring i den svenska hyreshussektorn. Särskild uppmärksamhet ägnas åt bostadsrättsinstitutets ställning och utveckling. Den täckta tidsperioden är 1900-talet, men ett särskilt utrymme ägnas åt 1970-talets utveckling. Från och med 1942...

In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen from 30.7% in 1978 to 3.8% in 2009. This paper begins...

A significant percentage of greenhouse gas emissions results from the need to heat and cool buildings and to provide power to household appliances. The potential for energy savings in this sector is considerable with estimates that energy use could be cut by almost a third simply by implementing...

Russia’s tremendous inter-regional variation in the pace of industrial land rights reform has meant that geography has helped determine the current tenure status of firms’ production plots as much as any individual firm characteristics. By exploiting both this difference in the pace with...

Nach dem Ende der kommunistischen Herrschaft in Russland haben der darauf folgende Transformationsschock und die durch ihn in Gang gesetzten Marktprozesse Veränderungen im Städtesystem bewirkt. Anhand eigens aufbereiteter Daten der amtlichen russischen Städtestatistik geht der Beitrag diesen...

Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...