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Infrastructure Gap in South Asia: Inequality of Access to Infrastructure Services
Biller, Dan; Andres, Luis; Dappe, Matias - 2015
-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … Asia region?s rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … of access across time, that is, across generations. It finds that while the regressivity of infrastructure services is …
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A quantitatively effectiveness of hybrid sewerage systems allowing rainwater flow into sewage facilities for disaster prevention of inland flooding
Shirayanagi, Hiroaki; Kitamura, Yukisada - 2015
In Japan, recent low birthrate and aging population have progressively led to a crisis for infrastructure. In … systems of enormous social capital infrastructure, we commented on the conditions and problems of two systems. To improve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400481
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How to prioritise policies for poverty reduction: Applying Bayesian Model Averaging to Vietnam
Klump, Rainer; Prüfer, Patricia - 2005
The UN Millennium Development Goals have recognized poverty reduction as the main goal of global development policy. A comprehensive framework to evaluate the effectiveness of single policy measures and policy packages with respect to poverty reduction is still lacking, though. Policy evaluation...
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Municipal sizes and municipal restructuring in Japan
Nakagawa, Kuninori - 2014
In this article, we quantitatively analyze changes in the size distribution of municipal jurisdictions in Japan by using their rank-size distribution to capture the change. In Japan, the central government sometimes enacts large-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400003
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Start-ups, Long- and Short-Term Survivors and their Effect on Regional Employment Growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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Does Quality make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation to sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...
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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: Evidence from Chinese Cities
Cole, Matthew A.; Elliott, Robert J.R.; Zhang, Jing - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between economic growth and industrial pollution emissions in China using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301460
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Intra-regional Disparity and Municipal Merger: Case Study in Fukuoka Prefecture
Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2013
This study examines intra-regional disparity and municipal merger in Fukuoka Prefecture. Fukuoka Prefecture (Fukuoka-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyushu Island. It faces the sea on three sides, bordering on Saga, Oita, and Kumamoto prefectures and facing Yamaguchi Prefecture across...
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Do electoral politics and partisan articulations matter for regional economic development? Evidence from Turkey's provinces
Luca, Davide - 2014
The importance of political local coalitions in shaping local governance structures conducive to economic growth has been a subject of research for numerous years, both in rich economies as well as in emerging countries. In spite of such amount of research, little attention has yet been paid to...
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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Eastern Himalayas
Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Micevska, Maja B. - 2007
Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households? incomes in the eastern Himalayan region of India. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. We present and explore an analytical...
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