This paper assesses the low-carbon economy in Asia: how large it is today and how well it will fare in the future. Using patent and trade data, it analyzes the potential of Asian economies to capture value from the design and export of low-carbon technologies, acknowledging that these are only...

Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interlinks between population urbanization and trade openness in developing economies have been ignored...

In der Europäischen Union werden seit über zehn Jahren Stadtentwicklungsfonds als Finanzierungsinstrument diskutiert, erprobt und umgesetzt. Sie ergänzen das Repertoire klassischer Finanzhilfen und sollen stadtentwicklungspolitisch relevante Vorhaben unterstützen, deren öffentliche oder...

The study introduces and applies the concept of spillover effects to high-speed rail development to formulate the economic impact on increasing the regional tax revenue. The previous study covered JR-Kyushu's development of the Kyushu Shinkansen (Kagoshima Route) in Kyushu region, Japan. The...