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Regional FDI spillovers and local suppliers : disentangling the effects of foreign ownership, technology gap and absorptive capacity
Jordaan, Jacob A. - 2012
In this paper, I present novel empirical evidence in support of the idea that FDI firms can act as an important driver of regional growth, by acting as a source of new knowledge and technologies to local suppliers in a host economy. For the analysis, I use unique firm level data that I obtained...
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Territorial dimension of wheat production in Romania
Zaharia, Marian; Gogonea, Rodica-Manuela; Bălăcescu, … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 83-90). 2020
Romania's significant agricultural productive potential can fully cover domestic demand and can ensure important export deliveries. However, the yield of cereal production is below the European Union average. Of these, an important place is occupied by wheat production. Taking into account these...
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The impact of structural and macroeconomic factors on regional productivity
D'Costa, Sabine; Garcilazo, Enrique; Oliveira-Martins, … - 2012
might vary across regions depending on their productivity gap with the most productive region in their country. Our … hypothesis is that regional productivity growth is positively related to the productivity growth of the leading region within the … country and positively related to the productivity gap with the region that has the highest level of productivity in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509185
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Causes of persistent productivity differences in the West German states in the period from 1950 to 1990
Waidlein, Nicole - 2011
explanation of the incomplete catching-up process within West Germany is of crucial interest. After identifying productivity as … the major growth driving force, this paper investigates the main causes of productivity growth on the state level between … 1950 and 1990. With the help of growth theories different determinants of productivity growth are identified. These are …
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Analysis of the main indicators regarding the production and surface area of the main crops in the South-East development region, in the period 2010-2018
Stoica, Gabriela-Dalila - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 183-187). 2020
Cereals are grown for grain and are used both to provide food and feed. In Romania, cereals occupy an important place in the structure of use of agricultural areas, observing a tendency to increase the areas where cereals are grown due to their importance, but also due to the fact that Romania...
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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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Effect of adoption of irrigation on rice yield in the municipality of Malanville, Benin
Melaine, Gbetondji; Nonvide, Armel - In: African development review 29 (2017), pp. 109-120
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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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Growth agglomeration effects in spatially interdependent Latin American regions
Guevara, Carolina - 2015
Theoretical approaches have been developed to examine the effect of agglomeration on growth. However, the understanding of the mechanisms of agglomeration in developing countries remains unaddressed. This paper aims to give empirical evidence of the role of agglomeration on the growth of Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480257
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Agglomeration and growth : evidence from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe
Vogel, Johanna - 2012 - This version: May 2012
This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...
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