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Measuring regional inequalities in Greek tourism development : ersa : regional integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the world economy : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013,...
Gaki, Eleni; Lagos, Dimitris G.; Kostopoulou, Stella - 2013
In recent times, the attention given to the importance of tourism as a particularly efficient way to promote regional … development has significantly increased, owing to the capacity of tourism to create income and employment and to generate … synergies within other economic sectors. Tourism is worldwide considered to have a key role in the economic development of …
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Tourists expenditure multipliers : what difference do financing sources play?
Haddad, Eduardo Amaral; Porsse, Alexandre Alves; … - 2011
domestic tourism in Brazil to consolidate an interstate matrix of expenditures by tourists. We then use an interregional input …-output system for Brazil to compute the tourism multipliers based on alternative hypotheses for the sources of financing of …
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Title: Logistic optimization in tourism networks : ERSA 55th World Renaissance: Changing roles for people and places", Lisbon, Portugal 25-28 August 2015
Frias, Armindo; Cabral, João; Costa, Álvaro - 2015
Tourism doesn't depend on a specific resource and enable the integration of local populations and economies, generating … benefits that have a stronger effect on regional development. Literature main stream identifies tourism as one of the … heritage. Its use can contribute to the satisfaction of tourists, promoting tourism and the region's development during their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476373
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Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship across regions : makes being a new industry a difference?
Wyrwich, Michael - 2011
This paper investigates regional sources of entrepreneurial opportunities of knowledge-intensive start-up activity. Thereby it is investigated whether it makes a difference if the knowledge-intensive sector is a newly emerging industry compared to the case where its location across space could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527207
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Territorial context in the research on the EU cohesion : one-speed or multi-speed Europe?
Sokołowicz, Mariusz E. - 2011
Every European Union enlargement has deepened economical divergence between member states and their regions. However, the economic aspect of this issue is only a part of a broad scope of reasons of its internal diversity, including also social, cultural or cognitive dimensions. The history of so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530566
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An anaylsis in order to measure of regional development agencies performance and their impacts to the regional growth in Turkey
Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alý - 2014
"Development" isn't only an economic notion but also it consist of so many meanings such as social, cultural manners, production and consumption ways. During the development process, development units could be growth in vary times and space. At this point what has to be told, which sector and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487841
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Suburban development of St Petersburg : comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions
Limonov, Leonid Ė. - 2014
The paper is devoted to problems of ensuring balanced and sustainable development of a very specific and important metropolitan region of the Russian Federation - the region of St Petersburg and surrounding it Leningrad Oblast. St.Petersburg (City) and Leningrad Oblast (Region) are both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503518
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The impact of Brazilian regional development funds on regional economic growth : a spatial panel approach : 54th ERSA Congress, 26-29 August 2014 - Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cravo, Túlio; Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Carvalho, … - 2014
In Brazil, the regional development policy is directed by the regional development funds for the Northeast (FNE), the North (FNO), and the Central-West (FCO), which invested more than ?36 billion in lagging regions between 2004 and 2010. This policy seeks to facilitate the economic and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504386
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Agriculture and regional development in Greece
Kyrkilis, Dimitrios; Semasis, Simeon - 2012
This paper attempts to explore the effects of post-war war economic development model followed in Greece. The model is characterized by both the neglect of Greek agriculture and the emphasis on industrialization, mainly around the two major cities, Athens and Thessaloniki. The model has to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508678
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Foreign Direct Investment and growth : the role of territorial capital
Casi, Laura; Resmini, Laura - 2012 - This version: June 2012, first draft
In the last years, and particularly since the publication of the famous Barca Report (Barca, 2009), the European Union (EU) is starting to acknowledge the importance of spatially targeted regional policies and to understand how crucial a territorial approach can be in order to achieve desirable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515025