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Creating a Cost-of-Doing-Business Index
Voicu, Alexandru; Lahr, Michael L. - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper we develop an index for comparing the cost of doing business across several metropolitan areas in the U ….S. Such indices can be used as leading indicators of metropolitan economic growth. To create the index, we first identify … be more accurate, the pooled technique facilitated statistical comparisons of the index across metropolitan areas. Based …
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Forecasting Regional Labour Markets with GVAR Models and Indicators
Schanne, Norbert - 2010
The development of employment and unemployment in regional labour markets is known to spatially interdependent. Global Vector-Autoregressive (GVAR) models generate a link between the local and the surrounding labour markets and thus might be useful when analysing and forecasting employment and...
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Serviço de moradia social ou locação social: Alternativas à política habitacional
Balbim, Renato - 2015
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Public Participation in Selection of The Road Construction by AHP for Supporting of CO2 Emissions Reduction: Maros-Watampone Road Case
Any, Wahyuni; Yuzuru, Miyata - 2013
Maros-Watampone road passes through a critical geometric conservation area where it is a barrier to the development improvement. Previous studies recommend that three proposed alternative constructions can be used: 1. Elevated Bridge, 2. Cut and Fill, 3. Tunnel system. The Government invited...
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The role of proximity relations in regional and territorial development processes
Torre, André; Wallet, Frederic Wallet - 2013
Proximity analyses have nowadays turned out to be a part of the toolbox of regional scientists and this notion recently became very popular in the position of politics, and private or public stakeholders. Proximity is an argument for selling food or financial products, as well as a good slogan...
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Accessibility Indicators for Regional Economic Development: An Application to the Regional Distributive Effects of High-Speed Rail in Spain
Chen, Guineng; Correia, Marcos; de Abreu e Silva, João - 2015
The inauguration of a HSR line increases the accessibility to people, resources, goods, and markets, which brings locational advantages, thus attracting new households, economic activities, allowing greater agglomerations. Intuitively, the locations where the accessibility increases higher than...
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The Agri-Food trade in Spain: specialization and international competition
Grande, María Josefa Garcia; Morales, José María López - 2015
Agri-food Industry, as the sum of the Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Fishing and Food Industry (Food, Beverages and Tobacco) is, except some service activities, the highlight industry of the Spanish economy, not only for their GVA (5.3% in 2013) and employment contribution (6.4% on the...
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Regional convergence and economic development in the EU: the relation between national growth and regional disparities within the old and the new member states
Kramar, Hans - 2015
, the diverging development of highly developed metropolitan regions and lagging rural areas has become a growing challenge …
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The late turn-out of the Slovak star-up factories: locational and institutional factors
Hudec, Oto; Lavcak, Marek - 2015
In recent years, start-ups and creative industries economy have recorded an extraordinary expansion. The geography of start-up and creative industries is often coincident with the factors of agglomeration economies and networking assets together with talent inherence and managerial culture,...
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Simulating the Impact of Compact City Policy on Two Korean Cities: Daejeon and Hwaseong
Kim, Donghan; Han, Haejin - 2015
The notion of compact city has become an important planning agenda to achieve a sustainable urban future. Although there is no universally accepted definition of a compact city, in terms of land use, the concept generally focuses on high-density and mixed-use development along with the promotion...
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