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Mobility and Regional Competitiveness in the Digital Age
Zuti, Bence - 2018
Digitalization is one of the key drivers of accelerated change in our everyday lives, both on an economic and social level. With solutions enabled through ICT technologies, we are more connected than ever on the global scale. In this next chapter of globalization, we currently experience...
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Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development : insights from development studies
Park, Albert Sanghoon - 2023
This paper explores how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike. Sampling 419 resilience-oriented journal articles from 2017-22, it uses Kuhnian...
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The World as a Region : Urban Development Strategies in a Global Economy
Gordon, Cameron - 2014
(conference paper: American Society for Public Administration, 58th National Conference, Philadelphia, July 26-30, 1997)Traditional models of urban economic development focus on regions. For example, States and localities are usually seen as being in competition with one another within a region...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709133
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Export Diversification in Low-Income Countries and Small States : Do Country Size and Income Level Matter?
Lee, Dongyeol - 2019
Export structure is less diversified in low-income countries (LICs) and especially small states that face resource constraints and small economic size. This paper explores the potential linkages between export structure and economic growth and its volatility in LICs and small states, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868466
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The Basilicata wealth fund : resource policy and long-run economic development in southern Italy
Iacono, Roberto - 2015
This paper contributes to the growing political economy literature of within-country natural resources management, by proposing a new resource policy for the oil-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. The policy proposal is to establish a (regional) wealth fund in which all the royalty...
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Unconditional convergence in currency unions : an analysis of European regions from 1991 to 2009
Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013
We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely heterogenous, highly discontinuous and strongly...
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Prevention and Insurance in Cities Exposed to Natural Disaster Risks
Goussebaïle, Arnaud - 2020
Prevention and insurance are studied in an urban model with spatial heterogeneity due not only to commuting transport costs but also to natural disaster risks. Costly insurance and charity donation both lead to low insurance purchase. While the former leads to high prevention, the latter leads...
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Does Regional Redistribution Spur Growth?
Koetter, Michael - 2016
After the German reunification, interregional subsidies accounted for approximately four percent of gross fixed capital investment in the new federal states. We show that between 1992 and 2005 infrastructure and (small) business aid had a negative net impact on regional economic growth. This...
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Public Cluster Policy and Neighboring Regions : Beggar-Thy-Neighbor?
Lehmann, Erik E. - 2018
Research on public cluster policy has largely taken a perspective evaluating firm performance or local cluster … public cluster policy in three ways. Firstly, by evaluating public cluster policy per se. Secondly, whether positive effects …, whether effects of public cluster policy spill over to neighboring regions or are mainly bounded locally. Based on a unique …
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An integrated approach to the Paris climate Agreement : the role of regions and cities
Matsumoto, Tadashi; Allain-Dupré, Dorothée; Crook, … - 2019
Following the historic 2015 Paris Agreement aiming to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, 165 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, representing 192 countries, have been submitted. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) detail each...
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