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Regional convergence and R&D investment : applied investigation in Portugal : ERSA 55th Congress : World renaissance: changing roles for people and places : Lisbon, Portugal 25-28...

Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés; Guerreiro, António - 2015

R&D investments are seen has having an enormous potential impact on the competitive position of regions and perhaps on regional convergence (or divergence) too. The aim of the paper is to study both the localization of R&D investments and regional income distribution among the NUTs 3 regions of...

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Income convergence : an analysis for the Brazilian States between 1994 - 2010

Gomes, Alexandre; Gazonato, Mariana; Reis, Raphael - 2014

Income inequality is a phenomenon that occurs in different proportions in many countries of the world. In Brazil, the problem seems particularly worrisome, as is worldly known as one of the most unequal countries in the world. This paper investigates the hypothesis of absolute and conditional...

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Growth and convergence among Argentine provinces since 1895

Aráoz, María Florencia; Nicolini, Esteban A.; … - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 65-95). 2020

The economic development of Argentina since the end of the nineteenth century is a story of growth, splendour and then stagnation and relative decline. In this chapter we present the first consistent formal quantitative analysis of the regional dimension of that story. By putting together...

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From West to East: Bolivian regional GDPs since the 1950s : a story of natural resources and infrastructure

Peres-Cajías, José - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 97-129). 2020

This chapter offers a general assessment of the economic activity in Bolivian regions thanks to an estimation, for the first time, of regional GDPs in Bolivia from 1950 onwards. The new quantitative evidence shows the economic upsurge and consolidation of new regions beyond the traditional...

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Regional GDP in Mexico, 1895-2010

Aguilar Retureta, José; Badia-Miró, Marc; Herranz … - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 211-239). 2020

This chapter aims at contributing to the international literature on the long-term evolution of regional inequality by analysing the case of Mexico from 1895 to 2010. Economic differences among Mexican regions are substantial and have been increasing for a long time. The study of the Mexican...

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Peruvian regional inequality : 1847-2017

Seminario, Bruno; Zegarra, María Alejandra; Palomino, Luis - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 241-269). 2020

This chapter describes the evolution of regional inequality in Peru between the years 1847 and 2017 using the latest available statistics on the spatial distribution of population and economic activity. The main results observed were the transformation of the economic space of this country....

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Innovation, income and regional development : an assessment of the importance of differences in regional potentials

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2016

The purpose of the current paper is to analyze the impact of regional potentials on the process of growth. How are different types of regions (e.g. medium sized [city] regions, rural regions, urban regions or metropolitan and high-tech cluster regions) affected by improved performance, and to...

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Productivity growth, poverty reduction and income inequality : new empirical evidence

Hamit-Haggar, Mahamat; Souare, Malick - In: Productivity and Inequality, (pp. 229-254). 2018

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Regional variation in urbanisation in India and the emergence of new towns

Chatterjee, Mahalaya - 2014

India, a country with a vast land area and population, has crossed the 30% level only in terms of urbanization as per … these statutory towns, Census authority of India declares some areas as towns if they satisfy the following three criteria … by the forces affecting the process of urbanisation and partly by the post-independence experience of India in economic …

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Accumulation of education and regional income growth : limited human capital effects in Norway

Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2011 - Date: February 1, 2011

Accumulation of education and geographic concentration of educated people in cities are expected to generate urban income growth. New economic geography predicts income divergence across regions. We investigate the dynamic process of accumulating tertiary education and regional income growth in...

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