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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Regional inequality"”.
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Regional Inequality and Structural Changes in the Brazilian Economy
… polarization effects from the Center-South. If regional equity is part of the country's development agenda, an active regional policy by the central government is still needed, in order to reduce regional economic disparities, and specifically to address the problems of the North and Northeast, …
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Essays on Inequality, Growth, and Economic Policy
… consists of three chapters that study inequality and regional economics in a historical and development context.</p> <p>The first chapter examines regional inequality among Habsburg regions from the 19th century to today’s EU by using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to …
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Income Inequality, Human Capital and Economic Growth in China
… reviewing the existing literature on the inequality-growth nexus, this thesis then conducts empirical studies to explore the spatial dynamics of China’s regional income inequality and economic growth, investigates the relationship between inequality and growth, and the influences of human …
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Advanced producer services and urban growth.
… services reveals a significant degree of regional inequality in their provision which given the contribution they make to growth has potentially serious implications for the economic regeneration of many of Britain's depressed areas.
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The Case of EFA In Sub-Saharan West Africa: How Notions of Human Capital Shape the Discourse of EFA Policymakers and EFA Teachers in Sub-Saharan West Africa
… and how it contributes to a system of global and regional inequality. One of the reasons for this is that both groups do not want to lose their perceived status. Another reason that emerged was the disconnect between the policymaker and the EFA teacher. This research looked at the role ideologies …
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Counting Errors: How Misunderstanding of China's Local Population and Employment Counts Affects Economic Analysis
… China’s 2010 population census. These issues are regional inequality, optimal city size, the city size distribution, the nature, location and size of urbanization economies, and the determinants of urban land area expansion. Each issue is studied in a single, self-contained, paper that in some …
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Uttar Pradesh - lagging state of India: economic development and role of banks
… a tool to explore the changes and structural and regional shifts in the state. It examines bank credit to various regions, districts, occupations, rural and urban populations, large and small borrowers and gender in UP. This study explores credit in a multi-dimensional framework as a route to …
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Beyond the scores: A critical realist study of the causes of regional educational inequality in Kazakhstan
… the extent to which educational policies address regional inequalities. Grounded in critical theory (Bourdieu, 1986; Gibson, 1986) and Bronfenbrenner’s (1978) Ecological model, it employs Critical realist thematic analysis (Fryer, 2022) to analyse interviews and focus groups with school directors, …
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ES struktūrinių fondų paramos poveikio regioninei konvergencijai vertinimas /
The Master‘s thesis deals with theories of regional development and concepts of regional convergence, EU cohesion policy and EU structural funds. The directions of impact of the EU structural funds and the core aspects of the EU structural funds reform carried out before the period 2007-2013 are …
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Three papers in urban and regional economic and development
… presents three chapters that studies the regional evolution over time and how the local markets adapt to the changing environment. The first chapter focuses on the regional convergence or divergence debate. Current studies have provided conflicting evidences. The regression analysis study …
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Inequality in Labour Markets
… each of which studies a separate dimension of inequality in modern labour markets. Each chapter analyses the individual-level behaviours of workers or firms that underpin regional and aggregate distributional features of labour markets. Together, they address cross-sectional wage inequality …
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Life Cycle Environmental Impacts and Decarbonisation Pathways of China’s Urban Water Systems
… the UWSs in each province are analysed and the regional inequality across provinces is revealed. The environmental hotspots within the UWS and the major sources of each impact are identified. Second, I conduct a future-oriented and provincial-level LCA on China’s UWSs up to 2050, incorporating …
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The spatial dimensions of economic activity in South Africa: the role of regional policy, crime and the business environment
… distributed across regions within countries. Regional development policies and the incidence of crime rates, an important aspect of the quality of the local business environment, may both impact spatial disparities in economic activity. This thesis examines the relationship between regional …