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issue from an European perspective. In Romania, regionalization generated numerous disputes and controversies, both … political and ideological. In the context of the demarches to consolidate Romania's regionalization and decentralization, this … paper aims to analyse the necessity of creating a region in the South of country with Arges County as a pole of development. …
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issue from an European perspective. In Romania, regionalization generated numerous disputes and controversies, both … political and ideological. In the context of the demarches to consolidate Romania's regionalization and decentralization, this … paper aims to analyse the necessity of creating a region in the South of country with Arges County as a pole of development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079568
of structural and economic and social development, development of transport infrastructure and dynamics of foreign … and Armenia are revealed. Prevailing vectors of regionalization for the region and its states, their interrelation, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026547
Conflict is generally thought of as an obstruction to progress, but it need not be. There cannot be development if … constructive conflict is likely to be the development challenge at the start of the new millennium.  …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014755939
We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335973
This paper analyzes the interconnection between elites and its effects on economic growth. For decades, the bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has been termed the revolving door in English, pantouflage in...
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We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336011
Higgins et al. (2006), report several statistically significant partial correlates with US per capita income growth. However, Levine and Renelt (1992) demonstrate that such correlations are hardly ever robust to changing the combination of conditioning variables included. We ask, whether the...
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We use US county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9% and the New York estimate is 3.3%. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140587
We use US county level data from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. Increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively related to economic growth. We find no evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140618