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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Regional Growth"”.
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The strategy of concentrated decentralization for regional growth.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Regional growth theories and the measurement of regional structural change
… of structure and structural change in regional economies. Alternative methods are derived and tested, in order to observe the pattern of structural change over time, at both regional and intercountry settings, since further progress in regional growth theory will have to follow from …
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Allocation of Transportation Investments and Regional Growth: A Multilevel Optimization Framework
… investments and their impact on the regional economy. Because the relationship between regional growth and the transport sector is highly complex, evaluation of alternative transportation plans should be performed with the aid of models which include among the decision variables not …
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Sources of regional growth difference and income disparity during the reform period in China: an empirical analysis
… to make an empirical analysis on the sources of regional growth difference and income disparity during the reform period in China. After a critical review of previous theoretical and empirical literature on this issue, a new analytical framework is constructed based on the growth theory of …
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Analyzing Industry Clusters and Foundations of Regional Partnerships with Consideration of the I-29 Corridor Task Force in South Dakota
… of this study was to investigate components of a regional growth strategy with consideration of the I-29 Corridor Task Force including analyzing industry clusters and foundations of regional partnerships in South Dakota. There were two primary objectives of this research. The first was to create …
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Does the business cycle matter for convergence testing? Evidence from U.S. commuting zone level data, 1973-2007
This research investigated regional growth patterns under different economic environments. Based on the varying innovation capacities that occur at different stages of the business cycle, I hypothesize that in the more advanced stages of regional development, regional income inequality increases …
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The impact of the eurasian economic union and china’s belt and road initiative on two regions (central asia and the caucasus)
… to turn overlapping influences into sustainable regional growth.
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Towards the development of a holistic planning framework for a Logistics City-Cluster: a multinational modified Delphi study
… still fragmented and very limited. The continued growth of this new strategy has made it imperative to develop a coherent knowledge base, ensuring future orderly development. Hence, this research was twofold: first, it sought to contribute to the theoretical knowledge of the common enabling …
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Essays on Regional Economic Growth in China
… essays that contribute to the literature on regional economic growth in China. In Chapter 2, I examine the impact of manufacturing growth on employment in the non-tradable sector for prefecture-level cities in China. I find that adding ten manufacturing jobs creates 3.4 additional jobs in the …
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Boulevards of Growth : Assessing the planned boulevardizations in Helsinki in the context of city-regionalism and land-use conflicts between municipalities
… in Helsinki in the context of city-regionalism and land-use conflicts between municipalities. Interest conflicts inside regional growth machines are typical and the examination of these interest conflicts and their effects on the city-region and its growth dynamics is the corner …
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Regiono ekonominė plėtra /
… bring influence on different rates of economic growth across countries. Regional growth theories present a number of ideas that are important for understanding growth processes in developing countries. In this paper six the most popular modern theories of regional economic development and growth …
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Age, Growth, Mortality, and the Effects of Trawling on Mortality of the Longspine Porgy, <i>Stenotomus caprinus</i>
… regions of the GOM to determine if there was a regional growth difference using likelihood methods. Regional von Bertalanffy length-age growth models displayed significantly different growth parameters with fish in the Central region growing larger at a slower rate (k) then those in the West …
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Rise of regions after reforms : late development strategies for the software industry in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala in India
… development. However, within the country, the growth in this industry has been concentrated in mainly the southern and the western parts. Regional growth of this industry has been driven by the policies of the regional governments, especially after the early 1990s when the central government …
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Two essays on stress and obesity: household and regional perspectives
… second essay examines the association between regional stress and individual obesity outcomes. This essay uses instrumental variables methods and draws upon the Creative Class regional growth hypothesis to inform the instruments. Using individual-level data from the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor …
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The Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in Tanzania: Experiences and Challenges for East African Customs Union
… and appreciation in Tanzania and in the Regional East African Customs Union. The study used a sample size of 75 respondents comprising of: Legislators (2) Policy Makers (5) the relevant Ministry Officials (5), Officials of EPZA (5), Investors/ Managers of EPZ Firms (5), Employees of EPZ …
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An Integrative Analysis of Fruit Shape in Capsella rubella and Arabidopsis thaliana
… that control the organisation and patterning of growth. The Arabidopsis fruit has been studied in detail and genes involved in fruit shape development and organisation have been uncovered. Related species that have divergent fruit forms have not been studied in the same detail and it remains …
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Realizing sustainability : implementing a vision in Burlington, Vermont
Sprawling growth patterns have characterized the spatial development of cities in the United States since the advent of the automobile. Extensive research has shown that low-density, haphazard development (a.k.a. sprawl) causes numerous deleterious impacts on communities. Communities are beginning …
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Transportation choices and regional development in the Pearl River Delta
… region, for the most part, lack coordination and regional focus. Instead, the autonomy granted to PRD municipalities over local economic development decisions has intensified competition among localities. This drive by officials to maximize development opportunities leaves little room for regional …
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Investigating the Future and Image of Leesburg, VA
… has experienced extraordinary levels of growth, facilitating the region's emergence as not only a center of national governance but increasingly a nationally and internationally significant location for population and economic development. Leesburg, Virginia, located approximately forty …
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