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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development : The Case of Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing …
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Economic Growth or Civil Development? Alternative Ways for Southern Italy
Radhuber, Michael - 2008
, poor public services and many social problems that make life difficult in the Mezzogiorno of Italy. So why did more than 60 … Mezzogiorno of Italy on the basis of a comparative descriptive approach, which is later on extended to a sectoral analysis of the … end civil issues can be considered at least as important for economic prosperity in southern Italy as strictly economic …
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Do institutions matter for regional economic growth and development? : the case of Turkey : ERSA 2011 Congress: 30th August-03rd September 2011, Barcelona, Spain
Degirmenci, Serkan - 2011
Many cross-country studies acknowledge the indispensable role of institutions in promoting economic growth and in sustaining economic development. So, their emphases have shifted to determine the most influential institution(s) in order to be specific. While these papers are widespread in the...
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Exploring the Trade–Urbanization Nexus in Developing Economies : Evidence and Implications
Zhang, Yuan - 2017
Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interlinks between population urbanization and trade openness in developing economies have been ignored...
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Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development
Bluhm, Richard - 2019
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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Urbanization, Urban Concentration and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric - 2004
We investigate how urban concentration and urbanization affect economic growth in developing countries. Using semi-parametric estimation techniques on a cross-country panel of 39 countries for the years 1960-1990 we discover a U-shaped relationship for urban concentration. this suggests the...
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The political economy of structural transformation in African cities : insights from the Deals and Development framework
Sen, Kunal - 2024
An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural transformation. This paper provides a political economy analysis of the lack of structural transformation in African cities, drawing on the Deals and Development framework. It...
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The Robust Relationship Between Taxes and State Economic Growth
Reed, W. Robert - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2006
I estimate the relationship between taxes and economic growth using data from 1970-1999 and the forty-eight continental U.S. states. I find that taxes used to fund general expenditures are associated with significant, negative effects on economic growth. Further, this finding is robust across...
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The role of universities in building a knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia
Salem, Mohamed Imam - In: International business and economics research journal 13 (2014) 5, pp. 1047-1055
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Higher education, innovation, and economic development
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - In: Higher education and development : Annual World Bank …, (pp. 201-228). 2008
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