Croatia ; Development ; Economic activity ; Economic development ; Employment ; Industry ; Location ; Multiple regression ; Multivariate analysis ; National economy ; National income ; Regional economy
Activité économique ; Analyse multivariée ; Croatie ; Développement ; Développement économique ; Economie nationale ; Economie régionale ; Emploi ; Industrie ; Localisation ; Revenu national ; Régression multiple
The influence of industry and other economic activities to the economic development of Croatia in 1988 is carefully elaborated in the paper. Some attemps to rank the importance of particular economic activities to economic development of Croatian
communes in complete are analyzed in the article. Special attention is payed to geographical correlation in development of industry and total national economy of Croatia.
Interregional economic growth with transportation and residential distribution
Capital accumulation ; Economic behaviour ; Economic growth ; Economic system ; Model ; Multiregional model ; Regional economy ; Spatial equilibrium
results for a 3-region economy provide insights into nationaleconomic development, regional agglomeration, and urban configuration.
The paper proposes a model of interregional economic growth with travel time, housing, residential distribution, and amenity. The economy consists of multiple regions and each region consists of the CBD and the residential area. The simulation
Development, unders development, and national spatial organization
Development ; Economic growth ; Economic space ; Economy ; Latin America ; Spatial organization ; Underdevelopment
Survey of the growth of interest in development issues and national spatial organization among Latin Americanist geographers. In the U.S., these themes have curiously elicited little interest.―(DWG)
Prumysl jako zaklad hospodarské potence regionu. (Industry as a source of economic potency of the regions)
Emploi ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Industrie ; Localisation ; Migration intérieure ; Produit National Brut ; Revenu ; Tchécoslovaquie
Czechoslovakia represents 1,6% of the world industrial production. The industry is the main source of the national product (67,4%) and national income (64,1%). In the article is examined the influence and composition of the industrial employment
The AA. argue that classical economic analysis of trading blocs is inconclusive, and regionalism cannot be understood in economic terms alone. They focus on an examination of the relationship that exists between trading bloc formation and more
fundamental economic and social trends taking place in the industrialized economies. Regionalism and multilateralism represent competing principles underpinning economic integration.
The impact of national park development on Tortuguaro, Costa Rica
With the withdrawal of exploitable resources to form a national park on the Caribbean shore of Costa Rica, standards of living declined in the short-term. But increased tourism points to long-term economic benefits. - (DWG)
Beyond rescaling : reintegrating the national as a dimension of scalar relations
Capitalism ; Economic system ; Globalization ; Political economy ; Scale
Il est nécessaire de ne pas s'en tenir à l'argument d'une nouvelle mise à l'échelle pour reconnaître que le national est encore pertinent dans l'économie politique d'aujourd'hui.
Most of the socially and economically declining regions of Hungary are situated along the national borders. The A. investigates the historical development and the future perspectives of one of these regions, streching along the nort-eastern borders
L'A. se demande ce que disent l'histoire, la géographie et la géopolitique au sujet d'un éventuel caractère européen de la Turquie, qui semble atypique parmi les nations occidentales.
Optimal urban population size : national vs local economic efficiency
City-region ; Economic growth ; Economy ; National economy ; Per capita income ; Population growth ; Regional economy ; Seoul ; South Korea ; Urban population
with a population module is developed. The counter-factual analysis shows that national population decentralisation away from the SMA is desirable for Korea’s economic growth. However, the SMA government is likely to have incentive to maintain its population
This paper explores whether the population size of the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) in Korea is efficient in terms of the national economy. To undertake this analysis, a recursively dynamic interregional computable general equilibrium model
at around 40 per cent of the national population, where per capita income at the regional, not national, level is maximised.
[b1] Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, National Univ., Seoul, Coree, Republique de
[b2] Regional Economics Applications laboratory, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Etats-Unis
The Extended Economic Zone, the coastal state, and economic development in Marine resource economics.
Développement ; Exploitation des océans ; Géographie humaine ; Produit de la pêche ; Pêche ; Ressource halieutique ; Revenu national ; Zone économique exclusive
The modernisation of Britain and local economic policy: promise and contradictions
Capital ; Economic policy ; Economic strategy ; Local government ; Local policy ; Locality ; Modernization ; Project ; United Kingdom
The modernisation project in recent years has shifted from the national to the local level, partly as a reaction to national neoliberalism which prioritises capital mobility over socialisation to promote manufacturing. Local modernisation strategies
Brunei ; Development ; Diversification ; Economic policy ; Economic strategy ; Economic structure ; Economy ; Money ; National income ; Oil ; Plan ; Public expenditure
Brunéi ; Diversification ; Dépenses publiques ; Développement ; Economie ; Monnaie ; Plan ; Politique économique ; Pétrole ; Revenu national ; Stratégie économique ; Structure économique
Despite its wealth, Brunei faces potentially serious problems in the formulation and implementation of its economic diversification strategy. Currency appreciations (resulting from the rise of revenues from royalties and taxes) have a negative
Struggling in the shade of globalisation : economic trends and responses in the Free State since the 1990s
Development strategy ; Economic policy ; Free State ; Globalization ; Industry ; Regional economy ; South Africa
An overview is provided of the Free State economy against the background of national and international trends ; to reflect on how the free State has reacted to national and global stimuli ; and to suggest reasons for the poor performance
of the province. The question is posed as to how well the Free State has responded to globalisation in respect of its mainstream economic policy and development approaches. - (AJC)
China and East Asia : an appraisal of regional economic integration
Asia ; China ; Eastern Asia ; Economic indicators ; Economic integration ; Gravity model ; Hong Kong ; International trade ; Japan ; Regional integration ; South Korea ; Taiwan
Concentration du commerce en Asie orientale : Chine, Japon, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Corée du Sud, nations membres de L'ASEAN. Commerce bilatéral entre nations d'Asie orientale. Utilisation du modèle de gravité pour identifier les facteurs clés
Anthropologie ; Birmanie ; Birmanie de l'Est ; Culturel ; Economie ; Ethnie ; Organisation sociale ; Religion ; Région périphérique ; Système de valeurs ; Vie sociale ; Wah national
Specialized in field researches in the border regions of Burma, the A. has divided the book in six chapters : 1. Location of Wah national ; 2. Historical background ; 3. Social organization ; 4. Religious beliefs ; 5. Economy ; 6. Other social
Local politics and economic geography : information aggregation and polarization
District ; Economic geography ; Economic sector ; Election ; Electoral behaviour ; Information ; Local policy ; Polarization ; Stratification ; Trade ; United States of America
This article considers information aggregation in national and local elections when voters are mobile and might sort themselves into local districts. Using a standard model of private information for voters in elections in combination with a new
economic geography model, agglomeration occurs for economic reasons, whereas voter stratification occurs due to political preferences. When trade is more costly, people tend to agglomerate for economic reasons, resulting in full information equivalence
[b1] Dept. of Economics, Washington Univ., St. Louis, Etats-Unis