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Environmental Sustainability, Energy Use and Economic Growth: an Analysis of Toyohashi City Energy-Economy Interaction

Hossain, Nahid; Miyata, Yuzuru - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 3, pp. 127-136

Manufacturing and trading concentration, elevated economic activities and rise in urban population are the driving forces of city growths in the central part of Japan. Toyohashi city, locating between Tokyo and Nagoya, Osaka, is facing rapid growth for its industrial and port related economic...

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NEW INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE COPING WITH THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF SHIFTING PRODUCTION TO BATTERY-BASED ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN TOYOHASHI CITY IN JAPAN-A CGE MODELING APPROACH-

Khanam, Shamsunnahar; Miyata, Yuzuru - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 3, pp. 105-125

After nearly a century with the internal combustion engine dominating the personal transportation sector, it now appears that the demands of Battery-based Electric Vehicles (BEVs) production are on the verge of experiencing rapid growth in Japan vehicle market. The broad-scale adoption of the...

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Farm SMEs sustainability assessment based on Bellagio Principles. The case of Messinian Region, Greece

Vlachos, Ilias P.; Malindretos, George P. - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 3, pp. 137-153

Purpose : Sufficient support of the sustainability of farm products embedded in a region (such as Products of Designated Origin / PDOs) to overcome significant obstacles to access domestic and remote markets. Main research question is how to overcome such inherent difficulties and transform them...

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REGIONS AND CRISES: EUROPEAN AND ASIAN ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE

Blizkovsky, Petr - In: Journal of Regional Development and Planning 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-14

Macro-regions are experiencing regional crises. Interestingly, macro-regions are also able to react in terms of policy responses. This article addresses economic governance against the backdrop of two macro-regional cooperation models, in the European Union and in ASEAN. Economic governance is...

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Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?

Meunier, Olivier; Mignolet, Mignolet , Michel; Mulquin, … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2007) 10, pp. 155-170

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how national interpersonaltransfer policies affect regions’ economic growth. Reviewing the economic literature,we found only incidental evidences and contradictory conclusions. Our objective isto provide some statistical evidence of the relation...

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Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William; Goswami, Grover - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...

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Mezzogiorno d'Italia - Primo Baedeker dello sviluppo territoriale e regionale

Pammolli, Fabio; SALERNO, Nicola Carmine; … - CERM - Competitività, Regole, Mercati - 2008

Questo documento inaugura una nuova serie CERM dedicata all'analisi delle statistiche più significative per analizzare lo sviluppo territoriale e regionale in Italia. La nuova serie si propone di elaborare e selezionare gruppi ristretti e significativi di statistiche che permettano di avere un...

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ATTEMPTS TO ESTIMATE THE SOURCES OF AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES IN IASI METROPOLITAN AREA

CLIPA, RALUCA IRINA - In: Anale. Seria Stiinte Economice. Timisoara XVIII/Supplement (2012) November, pp. 352-358

The paper tries to estimate the sources of agglomeration economies in Iasi Metropolitan Area, concluding that there is … potential to benefit from the advantages generated by agglomeration economies throughout the metropolitan area, as a result of … the forces of attraction and diffusion of prosperity which characterise the urban agglomeration. We support the idea that …

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Perspectives on Cluster Evolution: Critical Review and Future Research Issues

Trippl, Michaela; Grillitsch, Markus; Isaksen, Arne; … - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014

The past two decades have witnessed an ever-growing scholarly interest in regional clusters. The focus of research has mainly been on why clusters exist and what characteristics “functioning” clusters hold. Although the interest in more dynamic views on clusters is not new, in recent years,...

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Innovative Regional Development Theories and Policies for Food and Nutrition Security

Marta, Stefano - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2013

The pressing nature of the issue of hunger and food insecurity, the first United Nations Millennium Development Goal, the fact that this MDG is far to be achieved by 2015 and the growing consensus around the inadequacy and ineffectiveness of the traditional approaches to tackle it, suggest that...

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