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The Merits of Regional Cooperation
The Case of South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book highlights various cutting-edge topics and approaches to cooperation and regional integration in South Asia. Contributions from both South Asian and EU scholars carry the distinctive flavour of differing perspectives, in order to identify possible driving factors for regional cooperation.
The...
Globalization and Urban Implosion
Creating New Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
In the past twenty years, globalization has rendered many economic and social urban functions obsolete. Large cities face a form of implosion, which necessitates a rethinking of both contents and containers. This book will mainly concentrate on the latter aspect. Thus, the need to replace old functions...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This book addresses the topic of urban models with reference to large western cities and particularly to global cities. In the current transitional phase, the use of language and the systematization of phenomena has become important. The book’s matrix examines two important and strongly connected...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book presents the findings of the extensive research progrannne funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) and entitled 'Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe'. The goal of this programme was to carry out research by means of empirical surveys into...
Asian Economic Integration Report 2017
The Era of Financial Interconnectedness---How Can Asia Strengthen Financial Resilience?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The Asian Economic Integration Report 2017 is the annual report on Asia's progress in regional cooperation and integration (RCI) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It covers ADB's 48 regional members and analyzes regional and global economic linkages. This year's special theme chapter, "The...
Urban China
Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development...
Economic Development and Inequality in China
The Case of Guangdong
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The conventional belief that all regions have equally benefited from China’s remarkable development over the last three decades is subjected to criticism in this book as Hong Yu systematically analyses the issue of regional inequality during the post-1978 period using the case of Guangdong. Guangdong...
Innovation Networks for Regional Development
Concepts, Case Studies, and Agent-Based Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book brings together original research on the role of networks in regional economic development and innovation. It presents a comprehensive framework synthesizing extant theories, a palette of real-world cases in the aerospace, automotive, life science, biotechnology and health care industries,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
The need for informed and effective insights into key concepts and models of regional development and growth, from an endogenous growth perspective, has risen over the past decade. These recent advances address in particular local and regional assets and characteristics comprising inter alia creativity,...
Regional Cohesion
Effectiveness of Network Structures
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
This book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of EU regional cohesion based on a network and clusters approach. The author explores the question if and how the presence of network structures supports the effectiveness of transformation in EU regions, in particular with a focus on non-pecuniary...
Empirical Modelling in Regional Science
Towards a Global Time‒Space‒Structural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Economic agents interact in structural relationships through time and space. This work starts from the empirical observation that all three dimensions, namely time, space, and structural functional forms, are important for an integrative framework of modern empirical analysis in regional science....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
This is the first book to provide readers with a theoretical and empirical analysis of sustainable economic growth in Asian countries. Recently, most Asian countries have achieved rapid economic growth and their existence cannot be ignored in the world economy. However, these countries now face the...
Measuring Regional Specialisation
A New Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure. It begins by reviewing existing indicators and models of regional specialization before outlining a newly created, spatially embedded model of specialization based on the spatial distribution of firms....
A New Perspective on Agglomeration Economies in Japan
An Application of Productivity Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book describes various methods of analysis for ascertaining the effects of agglomeration economies, which are important for formulating regional economic policies. Specifically, it describes new analytical approaches using productivity and productive efficiency analyses as methods for understanding...