News is often interspersed with reports from small islands. Reference is often made to them due to their small size, or due to their administrative autonomy or financial regime; usually attracting the common interest. Actually, what are the so-called microstates, virtual lands, unrecognized state...

The analysis of spatial mismatches in access to employment remains a very important area of labour market literature. A particular case is that of the mismatches in urban labour markets, which can result in substantial differences in the employment opportunities available in city centres and...

Over the last decades tourism has grown enormously and travel distances have increased. Land occupied by tourism related activities is growing significantly, in certain areas, and this trend is expected to continue, at the expense of land previously used in other activities. According to the...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the specialization of Indian productive structures in 2006, using specialization indicators, namely localization quotient estimation, in order to assess both the relative degree of concentration of a given activity in a certain area and the specialization...

The development and support of clusters is an issue that became quite popular by players dealing with regional economic policy. But before a regional development agency can start to implement a cluster-oriented strategy there a two question that have to be answered: 1. What are the regional...

Dieser Artikel zielt darauf, Friedrich Ratzels politisch-geographische Wahrnehmung des Staates hinzuweisen. Zunächst wird gezeigt, dass Ratzels Sichtpunkt frei von organistischen oder metaphysischen Elementen ist. Endlich wird es untersucht werden, wie Ratzel den Staat als Ausdruck des neuen...

In addition to the direct productivity effect, public capital also has an indirect effect on private capital stock and labor input. This paper offers an evaluation of both the direct and indirect effects of Chinese public capital by applying a trans-log aggregate production function including...

Στην παρούσα εργασία γίνεται προσπάθεια να προσδιοριστεί ο ρόλος της Τριτοβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης στην Περιφερειακή Οικονομική Ανάπτυξη, σύμφωνα με τη διεθνή...

Η παρούσα εργασία έχει ως στόχο τη χάραξη στρατηγικής για τη μελλοντική ανάπτυξη του αγροτικού τομέα στη χώρα μας. Για το σκοπό αυτό, στο πρώτο μέρος εξετάζει το...

Η εδαφική συνοχή έχει αποτελέσει την αφορμή για αυξημένες προσδοκίες ως προς την ενασχόληση της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης (ΕΕ) με τη χωροταξία, προσδοκίες που δεν...