Regional category: 1377 books
Vector Calculus in Regional Development Analysis
Comparative Regional Analysis Using the Example of Poland
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Methods used for regional development analysis are employed mainly to make forecasts and comparisons. Forecasting models of various types (e.g. econometric models) are usually used for forecasting. Recently, vector-autoregressive models (VAR) have become popular. These models were proposed by Sims...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India’s development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India have...
Public Universities and Regional Growth
Insights from the University of California
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Public Universities and Regional Growth examines evolutions in research and innovation at six University of California campuses. Each chapter presents a deep, historical analysis that traces the dynamic interaction between particular campuses and regional firms in industries that range from biotechnology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book offers a new understanding of how firms determine their location and what kinds of regional economic policies are needed to attract factories to a country and a region in a highly globalized economic setting. The theoretical and empirical analyses examine the influence of the transfer pricing...
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.
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by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program will begin its third decade in 2012. Since its inception, the program has achieved noteworthy successes in fostering cooperation in a region that, at the commencement of the program, was emerging from a period of prolonged conflict. The...
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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...
by Neil Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The expansion of the European Union in 2004 has had significant consequences for both existing and new members of the Union. New member states are assimilating into a new institutional and policy framework, while the changing geography of Europe provides a different context for policy development...
New Regionalism and the European Union
Dialogues, Comparisons and New Research Directions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The debates on regionalism have been polarized between European Union (EU) scholars and non-EU scholars, with the assumption being that regionalism within the EU and other regions of the world are quite distinct, with little to be learnt from dialogue with each other. This book challenges such assumptions...
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...
by Kevin R. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree,...
Urban and Regional Planning in India
A Handbook for Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The scope of professional practice in planning has now become very vast-in addition to traditional land-use planning at urban, regional and national levels, it includes development management; real-estate development; advice, arbitration and legal services; education and training; and research.
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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...
Imagined Regional Communities
Integration and Sovereignty in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Imagined Regional Communities provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it develops detailed case studies based on archives, interviews and critical readings of existing texts. These case-studies...