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The relationship between public investment and regional economic
development is of perennial interest and is particularly topical
now as issues of infrastructure and innovation are high on policy
agendas in many countries. Public investment is often viewed as a
possible method for 'jump-starting' lagging regional economies and
also as a requirement for the continued development of more
prosperous regions. Public Investment and Regional Economic
Development provides a systematic analysis of the complex
relationship between public investment and regional economic
development. The authors offer new insights into the key issues of
regional growth, and present a broad variety of perspectives
ranging from transport and housing infrastructure through to human
capital and innovation. With contributions from leading regional
scientists, and each themed section of the book prefaced with an
editorial introduction to ensure coherence, this illuminating book
is sure to offer policymakers new research insights into key issues
of regional growth. Academics and researchers of urban and regional
planning, geography and economic development will also find the
book of great interest.
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Tourism in Frontier Areas (Hardcover)
Shaul Krakover, Yehuda Gradus; Contributions by Richard W. Butler, Daniel Felsenstein, Aliza Fleischer, …
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Discovery Miles 33 340
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In this timely new collection of essays, an excellent roster of
contributors bring new insight to a wide spectrum of topics related
to tourism in frontier areas. The book focuses on international
case studies as it discusses the economic feasibility of frontier
tourist development, the tourist development of rural and urban
settings, and the expansion of tourism to remote borderlands. The
contributors highlight the potential, as well as the environmental,
economic, bureaucratic, and cultural difficulties of peripheral
tourism. This innovative and thought-provoking approach--with its
wealth of detail--makes Tourism in Frontier Areas essential reading
for scholars in tourist development, regional development, and
economic geography.
This title was first published in 2001. Focusing on new industries,
policies and new forms of governance, the internationally renowned
contributors to this volume examine the factors promoting the
sub-national economic growth that is paradoxically occurring in an
era of globalization.
This title was first published in 2001. Focusing on new industries,
policies and new forms of governance, the internationally renowned
contributors to this volume examine the factors promoting the
sub-national economic growth that is paradoxically occurring in an
era of globalization.
This monograph deals with spatially dependent nonstationary time
series in a way accessible to both time series econometricians
wanting to understand spatial econometics, and spatial
econometricians lacking a grounding in time series analysis. After
charting key concepts in both time series and spatial econometrics,
the book discusses how the spatial connectivity matrix can be
estimated using spatial panel data instead of assuming it to be
exogenously fixed. This is followed by a discussion of spatial
nonstationarity in spatial cross-section data, and a full
exposition of non-stationarity in both single and multi-equation
contexts, including the estimation and simulation of spatial vector
autoregression (VAR) models and spatial error correction (ECM)
models. The book reviews the literature on panel unit root tests
and panel cointegration tests for spatially independent data, and
for data that are strongly spatially dependent. It provides for the
first time critical values for panel unit root tests and panel
cointegration tests when the spatial panel data are weakly or
spatially dependent. The volume concludes with a discussion of
incorporating strong and weak spatial dependence in non-stationary
panel data models. All discussions are accompanied by empirical
testing based on a spatial panel data of house prices in Israel.
1 2 Daniel Felsenstein and Boris A. Portnov 1 Department of
Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2 Department of
Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of
Haifa, Israel During the Candiot War of 1645-1669, the Ottoman
Sultan Ibrahim I ordered his chief admiral to attack Malta. Fearing
imminent defeat by the superior Venetian forces stationed on the
island, the admiral decided to trick the sultan out of the idea. As
the story goes, he placed a candle on his naval map, allowing the
wax to drip on the tiny island until it was completely covered.
Then he exclaimed in false surprise, "Malta Yok " (There is no
Malta ), and convinced the sultan to sail his fleet to the Island
of Crete instead. Although Malta is not featured in this volume,
most of the countries it covers are of "wax drip" size.
Intuitively, it may be expected that everything in small countries
is diminutive: distances, population, economies, and even regional
inequalities. Thus, at a symposium on "The Challenge of
Development" convened in Israel in 1957 to mark the inauguration of
a new building for the Department of Economics at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, the eminent US economist Simon Kuznets
stated that "developed small states seem to have succeeded in
spreading the fruits of economic growth more widely among their
populations than the larger states at comparable levels of income
per capita."
1 2 Daniel Felsenstein and Boris A. Portnov 1 Department of
Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2 Department of
Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of
Haifa, Israel During the Candiot War of 1645-1669, the Ottoman
Sultan Ibrahim I ordered his chief admiral to attack Malta. Fearing
imminent defeat by the superior Venetian forces stationed on the
island, the admiral decided to trick the sultan out of the idea. As
the story goes, he placed a candle on his naval map, allowing the
wax to drip on the tiny island until it was completely covered.
Then he exclaimed in false surprise, "Malta Yok " (There is no
Malta ), and convinced the sultan to sail his fleet to the Island
of Crete instead. Although Malta is not featured in this volume,
most of the countries it covers are of "wax drip" size.
Intuitively, it may be expected that everything in small countries
is diminutive: distances, population, economies, and even regional
inequalities. Thus, at a symposium on "The Challenge of
Development" convened in Israel in 1957 to mark the inauguration of
a new building for the Department of Economics at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, the eminent US economist Simon Kuznets
stated that "developed small states seem to have succeeded in
spreading the fruits of economic growth more widely among their
populations than the larger states at comparable levels of income
per capita."
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