Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht zu erläutern, ob und in welcher Form Tourismus zu wirtschaftlicher und regionaler Entwicklung beitragen kann. Zur Einstimmung auf dies Thema werden zunächst grundsätzliche Überlegungen angeführt. Die vorgenommene, vom Allgemeinen ins Spezielle gehende...

Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht zu erläutern, ob und in welcher Form Tourismus zu wirtschaftlicher und regionaler Entwicklung beitragen kann. Zur Einstimmung auf dies Thema werden zunächst grundsätzliche Überlegungen angeführt. Die vorgenommene, vom Allgemeinen ins Spezielle gehende...

In Africa there has been an immense effort in the past, continuing into the present, to unite politically and to build numerous economic integration areas. In this paper we discuss the reasons for the existence of this phenomenon in Africa which we call the drive to political and economic...

Continuing Asia's extraordinary transformation will require increasing attention on regional connectivity and logistic systems. The article focuses on the role of cross-border infrastructure in the process of regional integration in developing Asia. Given that most cross-border infrastructure...

The long-running conflict in northern Uganda has led to major violations of human rights against civilians, destruction of infrastructure, reduced access to social services, and paralysed economic activity. Creating peace and fostering reconciliation in the region have not been successful...

Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...

Geography causes African countries to experience a ‘proximity gap’. To overcome this gap a ‘big push’ may be needed in infrastructure. The cross-border nature of such infrastructure requires regional cooperation in at least four issues: transport infrastructure, trade facilitation,...

This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries...

Der Beitrag analysiert Struktur und Entwicklung des Gründungsgeschehens in den dreideutschen Raumordnungsregionen Dresden, Rostock und Karlsruhe. Die Gründungsratender beiden ostdeutschen Regionen fallen wesentlich höher als in Karlsruhe aus.Die Betriebe der Gründungskohorten in Dresden und...