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Sakurai, Seiichi; Yokoyama, Shigeki. |
This study investigates the effect of community factors on the development and diversification of rural Japan. Diversification is a matter of concern in rural communities as a means of revitalizing regional socio-economies. To establish new diversified activities, cooperation between rural residents is essential. Social capital (SC) is an important community factor that facilitates collective community action. The area analyzed in this study is the Awa area, where various kinds of agro-related activities have emerged, including rural-urban exchanges and agro-tourism. Traditional customs are also preserved in the area. We conducted both community and household-level surveys to collect data and investigate the general characteristics of the study area.... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; M2; O18; Q13; Q26; R0. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25550 |
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Whitacre, Brian E.. |
This paper examines the shifting influence of household characteristics and telecommunications infrastructure on the residential broadband adoption decision for Oklahoma residents between 2003 and 2006. In particular, the spread of wired telecommunications infrastructure (namely cable Internet and Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL)) is examined, along with the effect that this diffusion has had on broadband access rates. The data indicates that the gap in broadband access rates between rural and urban areas has remained relatively constant over this period despite increased levels of cable and DSL throughout the state. In addition, an inter-temporal decomposition shows that the increasing levels of infrastructure are not the dominant cause of higher broadband... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Broadband; Internet; Temporal Diffusion; Public Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; R11; O18; C1. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6934 |
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Hubbard, Carmen; Gorton, Matthew. |
This paper analyses expert attitudes to managing rural development in both established (EU15) and New Member States (NMS). It draws on case studies of five regions in the EU15 that have undergone, at least in some respects, successful rural development post-accession. Lessons of best practice were identified from interviews and supporting documentation, and verified / refined using a policy Delphi exercise. The results highlight the importance of creating appropriate national and regional structures to implement EU funded projects, capacity building, decentralisation, social capital and networking, and the role of “institutional memory”. |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Rural development; EU; Policy Delphi; Community/Rural/Urban Development; O18; P25; R58. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94906 |
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Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia. |
Border regions and border effects currently attract a lot of attention in political practice and economic research. Substantial interest in regions located along the frontiers of integrating countries is predominantly inspired by the presumption that their specific geographic position might cause peculiarities in economic adjustments to integration. This survey explores whether economic theory and empirical studies support the assessment that integration effects concentrate in border regions. Economic theory alone allows only very vague conclusions about the spatial effects of integration. Depending on specific circumstances, border regions might benefit, lose or not be affected by integration. Empirical research on border regions - undertaken so far -... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Regional development; Border regions; Integration effects; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Political Economy; R12; F15; O18. |
Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26340 |
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Monasterolo, Irene; Coppola, Nicola. |
The analysis of the experiences of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEs) in transition, which became EU members in the historical 2004 (and 2007) enlargement, evidences the importance of timing and targeting policy intervention for a balanced growth (Monasterolo et. al, 2008). In fact, even if the Countries, till the last financial and economic crisis, showed a clear path of convergence (EC, 2008; EC, 2009) with EU average levels of development thanks to a sustained growth in GDP, at the same time they had to face a notable increase in regional inequality (Brasili, 2005), mainly driven by the persisting backwardness of agricultural and rural areas. The European pre-accession funds had limited effect in preventing the spread in internal divergence... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Mapping rural areas; Policy targeting; RD policy evaluation; EU enlargement; Community/Rural/Urban Development; O18; P25; R58. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94737 |
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Zhao, Jianmei; Zhang, Jun. |
This article addresses the separability issue in the context of Chinese rural households. Deviating from previous research, our test on separability is embedded in the capital market imperfections and from the perspective of farm living consumption and their production inputs. Our theoretical framework incorporates the credit constraint and predicts both separability and non-separability behavior from rural households. Empirical estimation presents the evidence of non-separability behavior for credit constrained farm families, while independent decisions on farm living consumption and their production inputs exist among unconstrained households. Our overall results reject the separability for financially constraint farm households in China. |
Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Credit constraint; Non-separable behavior; Switching regression; Agricultural Finance; Consumer/Household Economics; Q12; Q14; O18. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123950 |
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Calatrava-Requena, Javier; Samir, Sayadi. |
Achieving gender symmetry in rural areas is an important target for the European Union. There is no shortage of talent, ideas and energy amongst women in rural areas, nor are there legal constraints. However, a range of cultural obstacles still stand in the way of their full participation in rural development (the persistence of traditional views about women's and men's roles in society, etc.) particularly in the Mediterranean areas. The integration of equal opportunities will no longer be a choice, but it will be an obligation in the design and implementation of rural development programmes and projects. Some European initiatives (NOW, EQUAL, LEADER, etc.) have already been taken to improve rural women's opportunities to participate more actively in... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Gender needs; Rural development; Gender asymmetry; Southeastern Spain; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital; O18; Q01; R13. |
Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24646 |
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Bureau, Jean-Christophe. |
General equilibrium models estimated by various authors and institutions show that, although trade liberalization leads to aggregate welfare gains, there are winners and losers when it comes to the distribution. The aim of this article is to determine to what extent rural regions have won or lost in the trade opening process that has been underway since the 1990s. The economic literature on international trade and regional development suggests the presence of opposing forces, making the global impact of international trade liberalization on rural areas ambiguous. Using a series of empirical studies, in particular the DREAM model (CEPII), the author assesses the impact of trade opening on the European Regions, observing a significant proportion of losers... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Trade liberalization; European Rural regions; Rural development policies; International Relations/Trade; O18. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7995 |
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Cameron, Michael P.; Lim, Steven. |
In many developing countries the composition of rural households is influenced by the migration of adult household members to urban locations in search of employment. Children may be left in the care of their mother alone, or in the care of grandparents when both parents have migrated. Using representative data from rural Northeast Thailand, this paper investigates whether household composition has any effect on the nutritional outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that household types other than nuclear families result in some significantly worse child nutritional outcomes. One implication is that governments should target programs to protect the welfare of the children of migrants in origin communities. |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Migration; Household composition; Children; Thailand; Consumer/Household Economics; I12; O15; O18. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10371 |
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Bezemer, Dirk J.. |
The replacement of wage-labour farms by family farms in Central and Eastern Europe during the transformation has been more limited than was initially expected. In this paper a formal framework is developed in order to analyse the behaviour of family farms and socialist-style farms in the presence of risk, given the typical post-socialist environment. Management incentives, ownership structure, lump-sum transfers and consumption choices are shown to have the potential to limit the size of family farms relative to socialist-style farms. The hypotheses are tested with survey data collected by the author in the Czech Republic. |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Transition; Agriculture; Structural change; Risk; Survey data; Risk and Uncertainty; D21; D81; O18; Q12. |
Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24888 |
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Buckwell, Allan. |
This article analyses the evolution of European rural regional economies and the Community's public regional policies, with a view to drawing lessons for other areas of the world, especially Latin America. After presenting relative size data for the EU regions based on population, territory, employment and income, the article analyses the key economic and social trends in these areas, together with the underlying explanatory factors. The main conclusion is that the economic development of the rural regions of the EU is much more due to the overall national economic development issues, than to rural development policies. Therefore, the way to achieve rural development is by means of a good overall economic development policy, and national policies are more... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Economic development of rural areas; Overall economic development; EU rural development policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; O18. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7988 |
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Kolympiris, Christos; Klein, Peter G.; Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas G.. |
Why do biotech firms cluster? New and established firms in biotech clusters are said to capitalize on knowledge spillovers, labor-market pooling, and other externalities. Some have even argued that such spillovers are so strong that the cluster itself, rather than the individual, is the locus of entrepreneurship. Such arguments, however, do not resolve the mechanism by which clusters might contribute to the establishment of new firms. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for analyzing the locational choices of entrepreneurial firms in the life-sciences industry. Building on both the cluster literature and the literature on entrepreneurship, we develop hypotheses about how cluster characteristics, the entrepreneurs personal characteristics, and... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology; Clusters; Knowledge spillovers; Agglomeration economies; Industrial Organization; L26; L65; O18; O32. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9761 |
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Lammers, Konrad. |
Im Zuge der Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union eröffnen sich für die Beitrittskandidatenländer gute Möglichkeiten, wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten aus Westeuropa und anderswo zu attrahieren und im Pro-Kopf-Einkommen aufzuholen. Der Aufholprozess der Beitrittsländer wird jedoch von zunehmender regionaler Divergenz in diesen Ländern begleitet sein. Diese Einschätzung beruht auf den Erfahrungen bei früheren Integrationsprozessen in Europa, insbesondere bei der Süderweiterung, und der ökonomischen Entwicklung in den Kohäsionsländern. Die bisherige Entwicklung der Beitrittskandidatenländer, die im Hinblick auf Handels- und Direktinvestitionsverflechtungen bereits in hohem Maße mit Westeuropa verflochten sind, bestätigen diese Einschätzungen. In the course of... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Enlargement; Regional convergence; Integration; Economic geography; Political Economy; F15; O52; O18; R12. |
Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26126 |
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