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The informational life of the poor : a study of digital access in three Mexican towns

Mariscal Avilés, Judith; Benítez Larghi, Sebastián; … - 2015

This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on the impact of the adoption of information technologies (ICT) in poverty reduction by understanding how the poor obtain, share and use ICT on their everyday life - what we call the informational lives of the poor. It identifies the opportunities and...

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Housing and immigrant population in Barcelona

Gutiérrez Valdivia, Blanca; García Almirall, Pilar - 2011

Demographic change occurred in the last decade by the arrival of immigrant population has produced significant social and physical transformations in the Spanish cities. This article is part of a research on the residential and urban conditions of immigrant population in the Metropolitan Region...

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Shrinking population and the urban hierarchy

Kim, Ho Yeon - 2012 - A preliminary draft

This paper examines whether population shrinkage leads to changes in the urban hierarchy in terms of relative sizes of cities and their functions onomic geography. We work backwards in a racetrack economy with eight cities in a long-run equilibrium. Initial distribution of population is chosen...

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Sustainable development aspects in cross-border cooperation programmes : the case of Croatia and Montenegro : European Regional Science Association - ERSA Congress 2011 Barcelona

Sumpor, Marijana; Kuzmić, Marga - 2011

The cross-border area between Croatia and Montenegro has similar development preconditions: large potential for tourism … Croatia-Montenegro 2007-2013 is the basis for our research and sustainability evaluation. As recognised in the Cross …

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Challenges in implementing Croatian regional policy within semi-European context : 52nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association Bratislava, Slovakia, 21st-25th August...

Fröhlich, Zlatan; Đokić, Irena - 2012

Croatia is geographically, historically and culturally a part of the European territory. Regions, as specific units … within a national territory, are defined differently on EU level than in Croatia, where counties are far too small to be … European Commission and Eurostat, Croatia has three "new" NUTS II regions (March, 2007): Adriatic, North-Eastern (Pannonian …

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