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An emerging African business quarter amid urban decline
Barrett, Giles Andrew; McEvoy, David - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 7 (2013) 3, pp. 274-292
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and assess the sustainability of an emergent West African business quarter in Manchester, UK. Comparisons are drawn with developments among other ethnic groups. The research is placed in the context of international literature on ethnic...
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An indicator for decline of industrial estates
Beekmans, Jasper; van der Krabben, Erwin; Martens, Karel - In: Journal of European Real Estate Research 5 (2012) 3, pp. 229-249
Purpose – Urban decline is a much‐researched topic in both urban and real estate literature. Yet, there is no generally accepted measurable indicator for decline. This paper starts to fill this void. The purpose of this paper is threefold: to better understand the process of decline of one...
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Verzerrungen von Konsumentenpreisindices und ihr Einfluss auf das „reale“ Wirtschaftswachstum – dargestellt am Beispiel der USA / Biases in Consumer Price Indices and Their Impact...
Hartwig, Jochen; Schips, Bernd - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 4, pp. 394-412
. Es erweist sich, dass die Divergenz in den Wachstumsraten der USA und der EU seit 1997 fast zur Gänze auf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014609054
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The Contractual Nature of the City
Lu, Qian - In: Man and the Economy 3 (2016) 1, pp. 129-145
Abstract Urbanization is a process in which separated and dispersed property rights become concentrated in a specific … various and high transaction costs. Efficient urbanization implies the reduction of these costs. This paper studies how … efficient urbanization reduces transaction costs in the real world, based on a series of contracts rather than the coercive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014615713
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Landscape Political Ecology: Rural-Urban Pattern of COVID-19 in Nigeria
Nwankwo, Cletus Famous; Ayadiuno, Romanus U. - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 12 (2021) 2, pp. 269-298
has not been understood in Africa. The study used spatial techniques to explore the pattern of urbanization-COVID-19 nexus …
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Economy, Commerce, and Energy: How Do the Factors Influence Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Japan? An Application of ARDL Model
Rahman, Syed Mahbubur; Ogura, Yasuhiro; Uddin, Md. Nasir; … - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 13 (2022) 2, pp. 219-233
Abstract Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) traps heat from the sun, and thereby prevents oceans from becoming frozen solid to keep the earth habitable. CO 2 emission also stimulates global warming and increases the pace of climate change. For such contradictory influences, researchers across the globe have...
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Chinese regional productivity and urbanization: a county-level study in 2007-2010
Jin, Fei; Zhang, Qi - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 8 (2015) 2, pp. 82-105
-level data, and the impact of the urbanization policy on TFP is discussed. Design/methodology/approach – The data envelopment …) institution divides Chinese urbanization into halves, which have the opposite correlation on TFP growth. Research limitations … factors that can influence productivity in the course of urbanization. Originality/value – The achievement of the first …
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Urbanization in Saudi Arabia and sustainability challenges of cities and heritage sites: heuristical insights
Alqahtany, Ali; Aravindakshan, Sreejith - In: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable … 12 (2021) 4, pp. 408-425
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the trajectories of the urbanization process in Saudi Arabia in its … urbanization impact on the status and management of cultural heritage in the Kingdom. Design/methodology/approach Our study design … integrated a well-articulated theoretical frame of sustainability to gain a heuristical understanding of urbanization in Saudi …
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External economies in banking
Shaffer, Sherrill - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 4 (2012) 4, pp. 354-365
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide the first empirical study of external economies (agglomeration economies) in the banking industry. Design/methodology/approach – The author extends a standard specification of banking costs to control for community and market characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014866873
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Land use and cover change (LUCC) and migration in Sukoharjo, Indonesia
Yogi, Anang Pra; Samudro, Bhimo Rizky; Soesilo, … - In: International Journal of Ethics and Systems 38 (2022) 3, pp. 465-483
Purpose This study aims to provide descriptive analysis on urbanization pattern in Sukoharjo Regency and also its …
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