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Evidence of relationships between religious affiliation and the African AIDS pandemic is found in the medical, religion … significant relationship between an index of social regulation of religion and HIV prevalence …
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Evidence of relationships between religious affiliation and the African AIDS pandemic is found in the medical, religion … significant relationship between an index of social regulation of religion and HIV prevalence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796083
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
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This paper is the summary of the IAREG (Intangible Assets and RegionalEconomic Growth) European project, which analyzed the role of intangibleassets (IA) on regional economic growth. We focused on some of the most relevantintangible assets, for which statistical information is available and...
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Several studies highlight that exporters in developing countries face substantial trade costs. To reduce these costs, a few developed countries mainly Canada, the EU, Japan and the USA granted preferential market access to these exporters. We assess whether these preferential accesses have...
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This paper explores the nature of the relationship between international tourism and the environment in a naturally bounded area, a small tropical island. Since the 1980s international tourism in Gili Trawangan has increasingly replaced agriculture and fishing as the dominant economic activity....
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The effects of social transfers on growth are still unclear. The limitations of aggregated data at sub-national levels have confined the analysis to the use of simulation models and household surveys. As an alternative, this paper contributes to the empirical literature by assessing the effects...
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In this paper we explore the relationship between the spatial agglomeration of economic activity and regional economic growth in Spain during the period 1870-1930. The study allows us to revisit the existence of a trade-off between economic growth and territorial cohesion and also to examine...
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Die klassische Wachstumsanalyse beantwortet zwar die Frage nach der Entwicklung einer Region, kann aber keine Antwort … für die Ursachen des Wachstums geben. Die hier angewandte Shift-Share-Analyse erlaubt, die Entwicklung auf die … Standortfaktor ver ändern. Die Analyse bezieht sich hierbei auf die Entwicklung Sachsens im Vergleich zu allen Bundesländern sowie …
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Die klassische Wachstumsanalyse beantwortet zwar die Frage nach der Entwicklung einer Region, kann aber keine Antwort … für die Ursachen des Wachstums geben. Die hier angewandte Shift-Share-Analyse erlaubt, die Entwicklung auf die … Standortfaktor ver ändern. Die Analyse bezieht sich hierbei auf die Entwicklung Sachsens im Vergleich zu allen Bundesländern sowie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008594292