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The European countries : the role of services : special session SS33, Services and the Territory: Spatial Aspects and Problems of Service Activities
Cuadrado Roura, Juan R.; Maroto Sánchez, Andrés - 2010
The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over recent decades. The innovative focus of this paper concerns the role of the service sector in this relationship at a regional level. Services play a core role in advanced economies,...
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Theory and practice on building global city with Chinese characteristics : Beijing as a case
Yang, Kaizhong; Liang, Han - 2012
. Then we propose basic strategies and routines for overcoming the traps and promoting global cities in China. …
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Effects of knowledge capital on total factor productivity in China : a spatial econometric perspective
Scherngell, Thomas; Borowiecki, Martin; Hu, Yuanjia - 2013
The transformation of China into a knowledge based economy is currently one of the most intensively debated research … knowledge spillovers on manufacturing total factor productivity (TFP) in China - at the level of Chinese regions - through the … question whether TFP in China is increasingly based on knowledge production and diffusion. Relying on the regional KCM as …
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[Employment trends in the key sectors of the Andalusian economy]
Campoy-Muñoz, Pilar; Cardenete Flores, Manuel Alejandro; … - 2015
The economic downturn has strongly impacted the Spanish labour market, resulting in the shedding of labour with significant differences across regions. Among them, the region of Andalusia is one of the most striking cases. Since the beginning of the crisis, the regional economy exhibited more...
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The importance of special safeguard tariffs (SSG) for Brazilian sugar exports : working paper submitted to the 2015 ERSA Congress
Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Burnquist, Heloisa Lee; … - 2015
This paper presents a critical analysis of the SSG and a simulation of its effects for Brazilian sugar exports to countries such as the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) bloc. A first stage involved the identification of tariff lines (TL) for the EU and the US sugar imports from...
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Emissions structure : a systemic analysis to Brazilian economy - 2003 and 2009
Perobelli, Fernando Salgueiro; Faria, Weslem Rodrigues; … - 2014
In the recent period, there is an increase in the household income in Brazil. There is a positive impact upon consumption and welfare. On the other hand is important to verify the impact upon emissions derived from household consumption. The literature presents two approaches to analyze...
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The impact of production and infrastructure shocks : a non-linear input-output programming approach, tested on an hypothetical economy
Oosterhaven, Jan; Bouwmeester, Maaike C.; Nozaki, Michiya - 2014
This paper develops a methodology to predict and to thus possibly mitigate the economic impacts of major catastrophes, such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The short-run impacts are assumed to be determined by the attempts of economic actors to return to the pre-catastrophe economic situation as...
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The input-output table for the Alentejo Region in Portugal : ERSA 2012 Congress - Regions in Motion: breaking the Path, Bratislava, Slovakia, 21st August -25th August 2012
Belbute, José M.; Caleiro, António; Guerreiro, … - 2012
Portugal is a not a homogenous territory even though it is a small country. Each region has different characteristics, which makes the country as an evident case for the need of an effective cohesion policy leading to a diminishment of regional disparities. This paper presents a preliminary...
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International trade and emissions : a Miyazawa approach
Vale, Vinicius de Almeida; Perobelli, Fernando Salgueiro; … - 2014
Nowadays, an important debate in the international economies is the problem of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change related. Discussions begin to gain the world with the signature of the Kyoto Protocol (1997), where an international agreement was reached to reduce global emissions....
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Produção eficiente de leite e seus impactos na geração de emprego e renda no Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil
Gomes, Adriano Provezano; Dias, Matheus Alves; Nascif, … - 2015
A produção de leite exerce papel de destaque no agronegócio brasileiro. No ano de 2012, a produção brasileira representou 5,16% do total mundial, colocando o país como o quarto maior produtor de leite. Em termos de valor bruto da produção, somente o segmento produtivo gerou US$ 14,4...
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