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Making the most of tourism in Indonesia to promote sustainable regional development
Ollivaud, Patrice; Haxton, Peter - 2019
Tourism has boomed in Indonesia in recent years and is already one of the main sources of foreign-currency earnings …. Indonesia has rich and diverse natural assets, whose tourism potential remains underutilised. The government has an ambitious … through infrastructure programmes to improve connectivity, which is a longstanding challenge for tourism as well as for …
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Walking Tourism – Promoting Regional Development
2019
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Indagine sulle vacanze, i viaggi e gli sports degli italiani : nel ...
Istituto Centrale di Statistica <Rom> - Roma - 1982(1984) nachgewiesen
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The rise of megaregions : delineating a new scale of economic geography
Glocker, Daniela - 2018
The concept of megaregions is increasingly put forward among academics and policy makers as a new scale of economic co-ordination and social organisation. A megaregion is most commonly understood as an economic unit that comprises an agglomeration of cities and its less dense hinterlands, which...
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Rural study of Korea
Garcilazo-Corredera, José Enrique; Springare, Laura-Sofia - 2019
This paper examines the role of rural regions in the economic transformation of Korea. The analysis at regional level reveals that, while having experiencing continued urbanisation and rapid demographic shift of aging and depopulation, the Korean rural areas performs well in terms of...
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Multi-level governance and cross-sector practices supporting the European Union Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region
Michalun, Maria Varinia; Nicita, Alessandra - 2019
European Union Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) represents a long-term strategic policy framework to promote socio-economic growth and tighter relations between European Union member countries and countries in the Western Balkan region. Of the four European Union Strategies...
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The EU-OECD definition of a functional urban area
Dijkstra, Lewis; Poelman, Hugo; Veneri, Paolo - 2019
This paper describes the EU-OECD method to define functional urban areas (FUAs). Being composed of a city and its commuting zone, FUAs encompass the economic and functional extent of cities based on daily people’s movements. The paper first presents briefly the methodological approach and...
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Benefitting from globalisation and technological change in Australia
Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2019
Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution. Technological change and international trade have contributed to this success, but have also brought structural change. Some industries have declined, while others flourished....
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Measuring women's economic empowerment : time use data and gender inequality
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Thim, Annelise - 2019
Empowerment, co-ordinated jointly by the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, the Development Centre and Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s...
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Regional integration in border cities
Sahel and West Africa Club; OECD - 2019
This report, part of the “Cities” collection, highlights the contribution of border towns to the process of regional integration in West Africa. For 18 countries, six indicators are used to identify the specificities of border towns at the local, national and international levels:...
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