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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Unbalanced growth"”.
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An Analysis of Health Sector Trends: Incorporating Theories of Unbalanced Growth
… it appears that at most 45 percent of the growth of health care expenditures is preventable without welfare loss through changes in the insurance system and productivity of health services. This portion is likely to be significantly lower in practical terms.
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Mediating regional development : how metalworking firms forged lasting linkages with steel in Ciudad, Guayana, Venezuela
… activity. According to the literatures on unbalanced growth, growth poles, foreign direct investment, and global commodity chains, large firms can dynamize lagging economies by creating a market for inputs, which then stimulates and fortifies local suppliers. Yet in practice, many national …
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Essays on Structural Transformation and Inequality
… the U.S. capital deepening process must cause unbalanced growth. The U.S. economy is classified into labor- and capital-intensive sectors. My model shows that due to the difference in the two sectors' elasticities of substitution between capital and labor, capital deepening leads to a growing …
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The role of an urban hierarchy as spatial planning instrument
… regional development over time results in an unbalanced spatial pattern and distribution of nodes. A spatially unbalanced region is likely to be directly linked to functioning and dynamics of the nodes in that specific region. Depending on the type and role of each node in a region, some nodes …
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The Utilization of Activated Sludge Polyhydroxyalkanoates for the Production of Biodegradable Plastics
… sludge) bacterial cultures. It was found that unbalanced growth conditions stimulated massive PHA production in activated sludge biomass. Operating conditions had a significant effect on PHA production and the composition of the accumulated copolymer when either laboratory prepared mixtures of …