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Sectoral decomposition of changes in Pakistan's poverty : the new interface
Zaman, Khalid; Khilji, Bashir Ahmad - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 18 (2014) 4, pp. 453-476
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Measuring Human Capital Divergence in a Growing Economy
Broxterman, Daniel - 2019
The stylized fact that the fraction of workers who are college graduates appears to increase more in US cities where the initial share is larger has attracted significant attention. Furthermore, more educated cities appear to grow faster. These two trends could portend the divergence of cities...
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Welfare gains from the variety growth
Kancs, D'Artis; Persyn, Damiaan - 2019
We estimate the variety gains of trade in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania following the fall of the iron curtain more than a quarter of a century ago. We apply the methodology of Feenstra (1994); Broda and Weinstein (2006); Ardelean and Lugovskyy (2010) and Soderbery (2015) to domestic and...
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Overurbanization and its Relation to Economic Growth for Less Developed Countries
Graves, Philip E.; Sexton, Robert L. - 2011
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Earthquakes and economic growth
Fisker, Peter Simonsen - 2012
This study explores the economic consequences of earthquakes. In particular, it is investigated how exposure to earthquakes affects economic growth both across and within countries. The key result of the empirical analysis is that while there are no observable effects at the country level,...
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Long-term growth determinants of young businesses in Germany : effects of regional concentration and specialisation
Otto, Anne; Fornahl, Dirk - 2008
In dem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie unterschiedliche Ausprägungen regionaler Konzentration und Spezialisierung das langfristige Wachstum neugegründeter Unternehmen beeinflussen. Die Stichprobe umfasst wissensintensive und nicht-wissensintensive westdeutsche Unternehmen des verarbeitenden...
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Earthquakes and economic growth
Fisker, Peter Simonsen - 2012
This study explores the economic consequences of earthquakes. In particular, it is investigated how exposure to earthquakes affects economic growth both across and within countries. The key result of the empirical analysis is that while there are no observable effects at the country level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511760
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Reimagining India's urban future : a framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India
Tewari, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015
India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to …'s GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by 2031. With 70% of all new jobs expected to come from urban areas …, accommodating a growing urban workforce will require large investments in new urban spaces. How prepared is India to deal with this …
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Space and growth
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004
This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...
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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008
Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011
. Within the hierarchical urban system, cities at different ranks (different size) take on different economic functions with … monocentric to a polycentric structure, which is usually considered as a possible strategy to eliminate diseconomies in urban … economics (Sasaki and Mun, 1996; Fujita et al., 1997). However, there is little empirical evidence on the links between urban …
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