The aim of this paper is to analyze the Brazilian case to identify the industrial cores and to find out whether Brazil follows this conventional view on industrial location in developing countries. This study is based on a database that merges two sets of data: the first describes 35600 industrial firms, and the second has information on the economic, social and urban structure of 5507 cities.
After decades of slow growth since Independence from the British Raj, Indian economy registered its own small miracle, when growth rate of GDP per capita surpassed the long term growth rate of many advanced economies. What caused this miracle? In this paper, the authors search for an answer in the neoclassical growth model.
This paper shows that a large fraction of the variability of emerging market bond spreads is explained by the evolution of global factors such as risk appetite and contagion. Overall, the results highlight the critical role played by exogenous factors in the evolution of the borrowing cost faced by emerging economies.
In the last decade, the Finnish economy has shown an unprecedented recovery, after being hit by a deep crisis in the early 1990s, according to the authors. The paper views and interprets this successful transformation process based on ICT from an evolutionary perspective.
This report draws on a variety of sources, including first-person interviews and academic literature, to bring out community perspectives on what makes for successful partnerships. The conclusions are presented as practical suggestions for community groups and campuses seeking to optimize partnerships. Four case studies describe lessons learned by participating community groups.
The authors study cointegration and causality between the real price of oil and the real price of the dollar over the 1974-2004 period. Results suggest that a 10% rise in the oil price coincides with a 4.3% appreciation of the dollar in the long run, and that the causality runs from oil to the dollar.
The report is a follow up to the 2004 study, and offers suggestions to be implemented to improve economic development.
The conference report finds that many community colleges are unassumingly becoming places students and communities do look to for leisure-time, creative,
and cultural activities, and they are becoming institutions of choice for qualifying for creative, and growing occupations and industries.
The report reveals that the Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula MSA grew approximately 1.3% between 2000 and 2004 – resulting in a total MSA population of approximately 370,300.
The report examines hundreds of national rankings on issues related to Colorados competitive position nationally. There are nine major industry clusters currently operating in Metro Denver. All nine industry clusters are important to the economic base, making them primary targets for economic development retention and expansion efforts.