This study aims to analyze and know the effect of the realization of revenue and expenditure areas to local economic growth by using the four independent variables in the research, namely the realization of the region original income, transfer income realization, the realization of other...

This dissertation empirically tests the impacts of telecommunications infrastructure as well asits spillover effects on regional economic growth in China. Based on data for 29 regions ofChina for the period 1986-2006, a panel data approach is used in the context of conditionalconvergence theory...

This thesis presents an examination of the importance of Small and MediumEnterprises (SMEs) for economic growth and examines how sensitive employment inSMEs is to business cycle fluctuations in Brazil.The thesis uses different empirical techniques to investigate the role of SMEsin the Brazilian...