direct investment and large firms is a new channel through which the war legacy impedes local development in Vietnam. A 1 …

This paper presents a spatial analysis of the regional dimensions of poverty and economic development across provinces … of Iran. It offers one of the few estimations made in developing countries using this strand of New Economic Geography … regional economic development in Iran based on the empirical estimation of two of the NEG models. First, it presents an …

This paper analyzes the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on various measures of local development in 207 … show that FTAs have a limited yet positive impact on a region's human development (as measured by the Human Development … (distribution of night lights among population). Finally, I also show that FTAs' impacts on human development are stronger for …

The study assesses the pattern of disparities in socio-economic development at the district level in India applying the … Research 11(3) 259–267, 1982) based upon optimal combination of selected socio-economic development indicators. In order to get … a clear picture of regional socio-economic disparities in India, the level of development is assessed separately for …

issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …