El objetivo principal de este trabajo es analizar la evolución de losfactores determinantes del desarrollo económico relativo andaluz en el contextoregional espa~nol, en el período 1980-2000, as´ı como los obstáculos que planteandichos factores favoreciendo el modelo desigual de...

Este trabajo trata de analizar el impacto que han tenido las infraestructuras en el nivel de desarrollo económico en Andalucía, desde una perspectiva comparativa con el conjunto de las regiones españolas. En este sentido, este documento pone de manifiesto que, sin duda, la escasez de...

El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido, por un lado, presentar la evolución territorial del crecimiento económico a partir de la contrastación de la hipótesis planteada por la Nueva Geografía Económica referida a la localización espacial de actividades empresariales en las regiones...

Tura T. and Harmaakorpi V. (2005) Social capital in building regional innovative capability, Regional Studies 39 , 1111-1125. The paper focuses on the relation of social capital and regional innovative capability. It examines the social nature of the innovative processes placing demands on the...

Since December ’89 and until today the Romanians have kept waiting for foreign investors to come with money, and to give an impulse to the Romanian economy. However, according to the data existing at the National Office of Trade Register, in these 14 years Romania did not manage to attract as...

In this paper we propose an estimation of the stock of capital series for the industrial sector of the Mexican states. In order to do it, the average age of the capital stock is calculated by estimating an empirical model that relates investment rates and employment. The empirical findings...

In this paper we investigate the effect of public investment on output, employment and private investment in Spain and its regions, and evaluate the relevance and magnitude of the resulting regional spillover effects. To this aim, we estimate different models using the Autoregressive Vector...

The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) introduced in India aimed at propelling the economy to a higher growth path and heralding socio-economic equality. In this transformed regime the State is to be a facilitator while the private players are to take up the expansionary effort. This requires...

This paper analyzes the influence that culture has exercised over the productivity and economic development of the Spanish regions between 1983 and 2001. The results obtained in the econometric estimates allow endorse the hypothesis that social capital has positively and significantly influenced...