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Growth and Development

Selected Works

1999

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Selección Empírica Para El Desarrollo Económico Regional, Vicente German-Soto Oct 1999

Selección Empírica Para El Desarrollo Económico Regional, Vicente German-Soto

Vicente German-Soto

This work disscuses aspects linked to identification of the important sectors through the input-output coefficients for the regional levels of the economies. We base our empirical evidence in a technology structure derivated of that sectors pushing of final demand. Results reflect that a unique method method to select important sectors does not exist. An final demand index selects to commercial sector as the most important. Sectors wiht the highest index correspond to activities highly dependent of the government.

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Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development, Asayehgn Desta Sep 1999

Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development, Asayehgn Desta

Asayehgn Desta

Can sustainable economic development be achieved without strong environmental protections? Bringing together theoretical issues in development economics and a wide range of empirical evidence, this book examines this question and explores ways that environmental sustainability has been—and might be—incorporated into existing theories of economic development. Protection of the environment is an essential part of development, and the best chance for achieving long-term sustainable development is to systematically incorporate environmental issues into key aspects of economic development paradigms. To show this, Desta makes use of theoretical approaches, draws policy implications, and illustrates each point with in-depth case studies from developing countries.

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A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving The Socioeconomic Fabric Of Women's Lives, Ann M. Oberhauser, Anne-Marie Turnage Mar 1999

A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving The Socioeconomic Fabric Of Women's Lives, Ann M. Oberhauser, Anne-Marie Turnage

Ann Oberhauser

Throughout the coalfields of central Appalachia, working-class people are engaging in alternative means of economic survival. For many, the region's endemic poverty is now worsening as tremendous job losses in coal mining diminish the historic source of employment for working -class men. In order to secure the necessities of life for themselves and their families, working-class women are not only entering the paid labor force but also turning to unregulated forms of income generation that lie outside the formal, wage-earning economy.

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Comercio Intraindustrial En Europa: Determinantes Nacionales, Miguel Carrera Troyano Dec 1998

Comercio Intraindustrial En Europa: Determinantes Nacionales, Miguel Carrera Troyano

Miguel Carrera Troyano

En este trabajo se contrasta empíricamente la capacidad de los determinantes propuestos por la teoría para explicar la variación por países de los índices bilaterales de comercio intraindustrial (total, horizontal y vertical) de cinco países europeos (España, Francia, Alemania, Italia y Reino Unido). Tras presentar la metodología empleada para distinguir el comercio intraindustrial vertical y horizontal se presentan los resultados de la aplicación a los cinco países. Asimismo, se proponen y contrastan diferentes hipótesis explicativas, sin seguir un único modelo teórico, de la variabilidad entre países de los índices de comercio intraindustrial. Se concluye, entre otras cosas, que una parte …

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Demand For Ground Transportation Fuel And Pricing Policy In Asian Tigers, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, Sara Banaszak, Pingsun Leung Dec 1998

Demand For Ground Transportation Fuel And Pricing Policy In Asian Tigers, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, Sara Banaszak, Pingsun Leung

Ujjayant Chakravorty

This paper examines the demand for gasoline and diesel in the ground transportation sectors of Korea and Taiwan, comparing the effects of their different pricing policies and stages of economic growth.

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Regional Economic Governance Series (Five Articles In A Weekly Series), Daila Shimek, Kevin O'Brien, Susan Petrone Dec 1998

Regional Economic Governance Series (Five Articles In A Weekly Series), Daila Shimek, Kevin O'Brien, Susan Petrone

Daila Shimek

No abstract provided.

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