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Looking for PeripheRurality
Camaioni, Beatrice; Esposti, Roberto; Lobianco, Antonello; … - 2013
Rural areas still play a major role within the EU, as Europe is still a fairly rural continent. Moreover, EU rural areas are going through greater challenges and major transformations. After the Eastern enlargements of the EU (in 2004 and 2007), they are getting more and more heterogeneous, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426659
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Retail productivity : investigating the influence of market size and regional hierarchy
Öner, Özge - 2014
This paper investigates the determinants of the productivity of independent retail stores in Sweden by focusing on the impact of market size and regional hierarchy while controlling for several store and employee characteristics over time. The analysis utilizes Swedish store-level data for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437068
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Pathways out of poverty during an economic crisis : an empirical assessment of rural Indonesia
McCulloch, Neil (contributor); Weisbrod, Julian (contributor) - 2007
Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realised in farming, rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003483855
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Can cities or towns drive African development? Economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319945
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Rural study of Korea
Garcilazo-Corredera, José Enrique; Springare, Laura-Sofia - 2019
This paper examines the role of rural regions in the economic transformation of Korea. The analysis at regional level reveals that, while having experiencing continued urbanisation and rapid demographic shift of aging and depopulation, the Korean rural areas performs well in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132869
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Location, industry structure and (the lack of) locally specific knowledge : on the diverging development of rural areas in Germany's East and West
Margarian, Anne; Hundt, Christian - 2019
Some rural regions in Western Germany have experienced a very positive economic development in terms of employment and incomes in the past decade. This development, however, is in sharp contrast to the the enduring economic lag of many rural regions in Eastern Germany. This paper seeks to find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111848
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Local transformation in rural Vietnam : a commune level analysis
Beck, Ulrik - 2015
This study documents the local transformation of rural Vietnamese communes in 12 different provinces from 2006 to 2014. Three key areas are considered, namely occupational and agricultural choice; provision of public goods and infrastructure as well as land markets. While many areas showed great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317153
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Can cities or towns drive African development? : economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545470
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How to identify specialization? : the case of India’s cities
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2017
Given that India’s urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account … for only 31% of the country’s population, they have been rightly called the engines of India’s growth. In this paper, I … competitiveness of India’s cities. This paper uses standard Census of India data at the level of the city, to compute location …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757591
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Exploring the trade-urbanization nexus in developing economies : evidence and implications
Zhang, Yuan; Wan, Guanghua - 2017
People's Republic of China and India further highlighting the critical role of cereals trade in population urbanization in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591014