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The aim of this chapter is to identify how different productive policies in Latin America considered regional development and how they impacted on regional development. Different productive policy periods since 1890 are identified and examples on how they considered regional development are...
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intense in the European case. In Europe, the spread of industrialization and structural change to a growing number of regions … policy - import substitution industrialization - that constituted the driving force behind the regional convergence. Finally …
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-WWII data from Japanese prefectures. This study used three concepts of industrial structure, standard industrialization … (enhancing of the non-agricultural sector), service industrialization, and the industrial upgrading (enhancing specialized … growth in Japan, industrialization induced population inflow from other prefectures, and this effect promoted urbanization in …
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main institutional driver of the country's catch-up industrialization. In this paper, we test this assertion by evaluating … productivity. In line with theories of late industrialization, we also find evidence that the effect of public credit was larger in …
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This paper aims to collaborate with the discussion about the factors that try to explain the economic behavior in Latin America countries, considering the importance of some attributes related to social capital (ie interpersonal trust, which leads to association and civic commitment, performing...
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Taiwan successfully upgraded its industries and entered into the high-tech industries in the last decades of the twentieth century. This essay examines how Taiwan achieved latecomer upgrading, by exploring the process by which its latecomer firms entered high-tech and modern services. It is...
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industrialization process not only in terms of the costs incurred by firms, but also how industrialization affects these costs, since … industrialization. He puts more emphasis on the creation of a larger internal market via for instance a customs union and the …
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The Forest as a Resource. Conflicts in the Northern Sweden Wooded land in the 19th century The forest as a resource played an important role in the structural transformation process which would change Sweden from an agrarian to an industrial economy during the 19th century. This paper will...
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