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Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic
Sila, Urban; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2020
There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of capacity at the local level reduces the quality...
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Does FDI benefit incumbent SMEs? : FDI spillovers and competition effects at the local level
Lembcke, Alexander C.; Wildnerova, Lenka - 2019
spillovers that facilitate the adoption of best practices in firms with access to globally integrated peers. This paper combines …, allowing for local spillovers (or crowding out) within the same industry and across industries. Foreign investment in the firm …
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Upward pressure on wages and the interregional trade spillover effects under demand-side shocks
Lecca, Patrizio; Christensen, Martin; Conte, Andrea; … - 2019
The paper illustrates the effect of a permanent demand-side shock in the perturbed regions and the associated spillover effects in the non-perturbed regions using the RHOMOLO spatial-numerical general equilibrium model of the EU economy. We test to what extent gradual upward pressure on wages...
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Cities and spatial interactions in West Africa : a clustering analysis of the local interactions of urban agglomerations
Curiel, Rafael Prieto; Heinrigs, Philipp; Heo, Inhoi - 2017
Over the past 60 years, urbanisation and cities have fundamentally transformed the social, economic and political geography of West Africa. The number of people living in cities increased from 5 million in 1950 to 133 million in 2010. During the same period, the number of towns and cities with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730168
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Enhancing public sector efficiency and effectiveness in the Czech Republic
Lewis, Christine; Fall, Falilou - 2017
Spending on public administration itself is relatively low and so are indicators of its performance. Challenges include wastage in public procurement, insufficient management of the investment cycle and high levels of staff turnover. This paper considers ways of building on recent reforms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700140
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Geographic information and the enlargement of the European Union: EUROGI-European Commission Workshop, Brussels, 16 - 17 November 2000
Craglia, M. (contributor); Dallemand, J. F. (contributor) - 2001
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The transition of China to sustainable growth : implications for the global economy and the euro area
Dieppe, Alistair (ed.); Gilhooly, Robert (ed.);  … - 2018
suggests that the spillovers to the euro area would be limited in the case of a modest slowdown in China's GDP growth, but … significant in the case of a sharp downturn. Sensitivity analysis underscores that the spillovers are dependent on the strengths …
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The simpler, the better : measuring financial conditions for monetary policy and financial stability
Arrigoni, Simone; Bobasu, Alina; Venditti, Fabrizio - 2021
In this paper we assess the merits of financial condition indices constructed using simple averages versus a more sophisticated alternative that uses factor models with time varying parameters. Our analysis is based on data for 18 advanced and emerging economies at a monthly frequency covering...
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The role of gender in linking external sources of knowledge and R&D intensity
Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B. - 2020
Scholars examining the effect of knowledge spillovers on R&D and innovation all agree on one thing-there is a strong …, such as the type of spillovers (horizontal, vertical, or from other sources), the level of appropriability , the type of … spillovers is ultimately context-specific, we analyse the differences between male-owned and female-owned young entrepreneurial …
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