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The financial evaluation of population growth in relation to development aid : China versus India (two nation brands' stories)
Mansfeld, Rostislav; Růžičková, Barbora - In: The impact of globalization on international finance …, (pp. 53-60). 2018
For the past 40 years, the most dynamic economies in the world were China and India. From approx. 5% of US GDP level …, China grows to 26% and India to 11% of current US levels. The ratio of foreign trade to GDP is similar for both countries as … well as capital flows to GDP. So why did China outperform India twice in terms of GDP growth and why is India first now …
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Arctic zone of the North-Eastern region of Russia : problems of demographic development
Sukne͏̈va, Svetlana A. - 2014
The author describes the features of the demographic development of the Arctic zone of the North-Eastern region of Russia. The Arctic zone of the North-Eastern region of Russia is one of the most extreme regions of the world. Territories located after the Arctic a circle are included in the...
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Hierarchical IPF : generating a synthetic population for Switzerland : ERSA 2011
Mueller, Kirill; Axhausen, Kay W. - 2011
Agent-based microsimulation models for land use or transportation simulate the behavior of agents over time, although at different time scales and with different goals. For both kinds of models, the initial step is the definition of agents and their relationships. Synthesizing the population of...
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Population growth in American cities between 1990 and 2010 : true contagion and urban hierarchy
Dobis, Elizabeth; Delgado, Michael; Florax, Raymond J. G. M. - 2015
Cities and towns are loci of population and production. In 2010, 80.7 percent of the United States population resided in urban areas, and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that in 2011, 90.1 percent of GDP was produced in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), emphasizing that urban...
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[Impact of utilities distribution in the population scattering] : [one analyzes of the African reality : Huambo Angola]
Pakissi, Cesar - 2015
The migratory phenomenon has been familiar with different realities, where less expectable regions can win or lose its population density influenced by factors whose compression can help to rethinking the forms of urban structure. The numerous studies on population trends and migratory flow the...
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Ageing by feet? : regional migration, neighbourhood choice and local demographic change in German cities : presented at ERSA 2015 (Lisbon)
Neumann, Uwe - 2015 - Preliminary draft
In the literature on the economics of demographic change so far the regional and neighbourhood-level consequences were out of the main focus. Yet, regional migration accentuates diversity in the progress of ageing. In fact, while households are known to "vote with their feet" when they choose a...
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Is there a fertility paradox in Denmark?
Lauridsen, Jørgen - 2015
Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several studies have been devoted to resolve it. The present...
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The growth strategy of Abenomics and fiscal consolidation
Miyazawa, Kensuke; Yamada, Junji - In: Journal of the Japanese and international economies : … 37 (2015), pp. 82-99
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Demographic change and unemployment in East Germany : how close are the ties?
Fuchs, Michaela; Weyh, Antje - 2014 - Preliminary version
In East Germany a profound demographic change has been taking place that manifests itself in the shrinkage and the aging of the population. One major cause is the drop in the East German fertility rates by about half directly after the reunification of Germany in 1990. In no other countries of...
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Infrastructure's long-lived impact on urban development : theory and empirics
Grimes, Arthur L.; Apatov, Eyal; Lutchmann, Larissa; … - 2014
We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy-makers to understand the intended, and potentially...
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