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Showing 1 to 20 of 10206 for “"regional"”.
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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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Essays in Regional Economics
… network during a strike in 2014. Exploiting regional variation in rail service cancellations, it presents causal evidence for an increase in bus ticket sales even beyond the labour dispute. Chapter 2 studies the railway expansion in Denmark in the nineteenth century. The nationwide rollout of …
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Three essays in regional economics: migration, regional portfolio theory, resilience, and agglomeration economies
… migration is a substantial focus in the field of regional economics. Researchers attempt to enhance our understanding by examining this phenomenon through a number of different lenses. Some have examined flows to the largest cities in the country and tried to uncover the underlying reasons for the …
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The evaluation of NARCCAP regional climate models using the North American Regional Reanalysis
… downscaling has been employed with the use of regional climate models (RCMs) as an alternative to statistical downscaling. However, while RCMs provide a much finer resolution, they have still been shown to exhibit bias within their simulations. In order to understand the biases and …
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Accelerating regional trade integration in Africa through regional value chains: A SADC perspective
Regional integration has been a key ambition, vision and standing agenda of the African continent for the past two decades. The recent signing of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) (signed by 54 of the 55 members of the African Union as of July 2019) brings to the fore the urgent …
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Measuring the Impact of Regional Projects: Developing an Evaluative Framework for Regional Economic Development
… agencies in optimising their contribution to regional development. It develops a technique of project appraisal that is both theoretically sound and of practical use. The objective is to help policy makers and practitioners to appraise, monitor and evaluate regional policy projects.<br/><br/>A …
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Negotiating regional futures:the successes and failures of the West Midlands Regional Development Agency Network
The introduction of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in the English regions in 1999 presented a new set of collaborative challenges to existing local institutions. The key objectives of the new policy impetus emphasise increased joined-up thinking and holistic regional governance. Partners were …
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Framework for designing regional planning architecture for APTS-enabled regional multimodal public transportation system
… and how these institutions can be developed. The Regional Strategic Transportation Planning/CLIOS Process and Regional Planning Architecture Protocol were combined to form a Regional Planning Architecture Strategic Design Framework. To illustrate the use of the framework, it was applied in …
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Regional economic and environmental analysis
Scotland has a set of legislative targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, measured on a territorial basis, introduced by the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. In addition, the Scottish Government have adopted as a 'national outcome' target a reduction in the emissions embodied in Scottish …
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Contributions to EU regional policy
… self-contained articles which are related to EU regional policy and its structural funds as the overall research topic. In particular, the thesis addresses the question if EU regional policy interventions can at all be scientifically justified and legitimated on theoretical and empirical grounds …
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Provincial government and regional development
… the problems rooted in its partiality and regionalisation. The reform started in the field of political administration and toleration of decentralisation and marketisation in the economic sphere has generated economic prosperity in some regions. But economic reform was not necessarily …
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The Regional Cults of Thessaly
Regionalism was a defining feature of Greek society in all periods of antiquity. The implications of this regionalism for the history of religion are crucial: No two areas of the Greek world worshipped the same pantheon of gods in the same way. Regional variation was the norm. This dissertation …
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Three Essays on Regional Economics
… The model aims to capture the tension between regional competition and scale economies presented in a region where many firms produce the same (or related) good(s). Opportunistic behavior can lead clustering firms to suboptimal investment in human capital and scale economies eventually …
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Online accommodation of regional accents
… the speech of a male talker with an unfamiliar regional dialect of American English, in which the /æ/ vowel is raised to /eɪ/ only before /g/ (e.g., bag is pronounced /beɪg/), and a female talker without the dialect. We examined interpretation of words like back in the context of a competitor …
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China--decentralization and regional cooperation
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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Regional variations in cyclical employment
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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The regional impact of highways
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1959.
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Community economic development? An examination of regional and sub-regional support networks for social enterprise
… better understanding of the support networks at regional and sub-regional levels, which are available for social enterprise. This has been done through a critical examination of contemporary policy documentation and research grounded in empirical investigation, about the development of the social …
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