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A new regional balance : challenges and opportunities for intermediate city regions in Europe : 54th Congress of the European Regional Science Association
Cornett, Andreas P. - 2014 - Preliminary version
located in the vicinity of the large urban agglomeration or farer away in the country. The project is both explorative and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503559
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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)
Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490043
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A new regional balance : regional specialization and growth : an analysis of spatial divergence in Northern Europe
Cornett, Andreas P. - 2015 - Extended abstract
Changing pattern of global specialization and trade has affected the regional economic landscape in Europe significantly during the last decades, often even more than endogenous factors or policy measures. After a period of conversion, processes of diversion has reentered the scene, particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481779
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Cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitans regions
Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de; Spolador, Humberto … - 2014 - (Preliminary draft)
This paper analyses the relationship between household cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitan regions. The country's economic growth in the last decade contributed significantly to structural economic changes at the regional level, in terms of employment, population growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504384
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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
analysing the case of Mexico from 1895 to 2010. Economic differences among Mexican regions are substantial and have been … may have different trends and determinants from those of the industrialized economies. In the case of Mexico, regional … activity in Mexico City and a clear division between the rich North and the poor South. By contrast, the period from 1940 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415496
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Adult mortality in Russian rural areas : inter-regional comparisons
Blinova, Tatiana; Bylina, Svetlana - 2011
Regions of the Russian Federation draw up purpose-oriented programs aiming at improving the health and reducing the mortality among the population. The task of decreasing the mortality among the rural population, especially overcoming the phenomenon of "excess mor-tality" among the people of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544696
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Regional resilience to displacements : explaining the regional capacity to re-employ displaced workers
Nyström, Kristina - 2015
Job displacement, which is defined as an involuntary loss of job due to economic downturns or structural changes, hit millions of workers each year. According to OECD (2013) 2-7 percent of workers are displaced every year. For Sweden, OECD (2013) reports an average displacement rate of about 2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478297
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Políticas públicas de ciência e tecnologia no Rio Grande do Sul como um instrumento de desenvolvimento regional : período 1995-2013
Lima, Mário Jaime Gomes de; Nascimento, Juliana de Oliveira - 2015
As Políticas Públicas de Desenvolvimento Regional, no contexto de Promoção e Valorização das Externalidades da Competitividade Empresarial, proposta por Figueiredo (2009), são organizadas a partir do conceito de impactos externos (externalidades) nos problemas regionais, em especial, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479928
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Spatial aspects of agent-based modeling of large economy
Suslov, Viktor Ivanovič; Domozhirov, Dmitry; … - 2015
The paper presents a pilot version of spatial agent-based model simulating the national economy of Russia. The model is supposed to be used for evaluation the effects of industrial and spatial policies. The object of modeling is multi-regional economic space of Russia in its interaction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480845
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Urban microclusters and tourism governance in Salvador/BA
Spinola, Carolina de Andrade; Silva, Jorge Antônio Santos - 2015
The research that led to this article sought to analyze under what conditions the concept of tourism cluster could be applied in setting up a governance and development model for the activity in the city of Salvador, Bahia. Third leisure destination and the first capital of Brazil, Salvador has...
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