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This study investigates the Granger-causality relationship between real per capita GDP and transportation of EU-15 countries using a panel data set covering the period 1970-2008. Our findings indicate that the dominant type of Granger-causality is bidirectional. Accordingly, we conclude that...
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I study how and why economic activity varies around regional borders. Spatial quasi-experimental variation around French departmental borders reveals discontinuous commuting and residential patterns. To tackle the endogenous border placement problem, I exploit a geometric border design proposed...
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classified as rural, it is indispensable to think up models of development whose main reference point is agriculture. Agriculture … producer of goods and promoter of a socio-cultural and environmental context. Agriculture is not a separate sector but an … action aimed at endorsing the multifunctional role of agriculture and to underline how agriculture operating in an integrated …
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Support of agriculture is justified, among others, by its contribution to rural economic development. Nevertheless, the … relation between agricultural and general economic development may be ambiguous. On the one side, agriculture may affect other … of common factors, specifically labour, by agriculture and other sectors. Under these circumstances, support of …
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demographic challenges faced by Smart Cities. Rapid urbanization will make urban agriculture more significant. Periurban, or … suburban agriculture, is a part of urban culture. It can greatly contribute to the food supply of the entire city. This raises …
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The paper addresses the spatial structure of agriculture in Poland whose spatial development is analysed from the … process of progressive differentiation in the regional structure of agriculture which have produced the existing disparities … explores the linkages between the spatial evolution of agriculture and the increasing disparities in terms of regional …
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Urbanization presents both opportunities and challenges to agriculture. This paper analyzes the effect of urbanization … on the structure and profitability of agriculture at the rural-urban fringe. We develop a theoretical model accounting …
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This paper analyses the effect of the EU enlargement process on income convergence among regions in the EU and in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU. The data used is NUTS II regions in the EU and Oblasts' of Russia over the period 1996-2004. The estimation techniques used take into account...
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The paper analyses the link between human capital and regional economic growth in the European Union. Using various indicators of human capital calculated from census microdata, we conclude that the recent economic performance of European regions is associated with an increase in overeducation....
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national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with …
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