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It is widely acknowledged that young ventures and fast growing firms have a strong impact on economic growth and employment creation. It is not only entrepreneurial dynamics associated to entry and exit of new ventures, but also the ability of firms to survive and grow, that is important for...
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The aim of this chapter is to identify how different productive policies in Latin America considered regional development and how they impacted on regional development. Different productive policy periods since 1890 are identified and examples on how they considered regional development are...
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The research in the topic of industrial districts has been focused on the identification of which industries are forming industrial districts and on the causes behind the development of the clusters. As well as there are historical and efficiency reasons that are behind the current configuration...
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historical economic development processes in four countries of South West Europe - France, Italy, Portugal and Spain - and nine … facts of these trajectories. First, Latin America begun the period with higher levels of regional inequality than Europe …. Second, the increase in inequality up to the interwar years was more intense in Latin America than in Europe. Besides, the …
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In this paper we present a methodology for feature selection and clustering over variables describing countries' economies and ICT indicators to study and identify investment opportunities, based on similarities between European and Latin American countries. We address two different problems....
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Can state-owned banks spur development? Gerschenkron (1962) identified the State Bank of the Rus- sian Empire as the main institutional driver of the country's catch-up industrialization. In this paper, we test this assertion by evaluating the outcome of a policy experiment (1892-1903) under the...
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