Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between the industrial and the service sector outputs at the aggregate level and for different sub-services in India and also tries to find out whether the relationship is changing over time. Design/methodology/approach – This paper...

Purpose – The paper seeks to demonstrate how local entities, such as cities and counties, can use environmentally preferable purchasing plans as a tool in developing the local green economy. First, the authors focus specifically on either the rise of economic development programs through...

Purpose – This study aims to identify the key factors that influence the successful implementation of clean energy interventions in low‐income urban communities in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The study took the form of three phases: an explorative, primary data‐gathering...

Zusammenfassung Die Berücksichtigung der Nachhaltigkeit wird immer wichtiger für die langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von touristischen Destinationen. Keines der existierenden Modelle zum Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement im Tourismus ist so operationalisiert, dass es in Destinationen einfach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the growth dynamics in a model where labor productivity is shaped by two forces. On one hand, it is determined by the extent in which available technology has been already explored. On the other hand, some labor skills may become obsolete,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that there exists a positive link between financial development and economic growth in island economies. Design/methodology/approach – To study this relationship both static and dynamic panel data techniques (GMM) are used for a...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on balance‐of‐payments‐constrained growth by providing an innovative empirical evaluation of a disaggregated version of the so‐called Thirlwall's Law derived from a Pasinettian multisectoral framework....