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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
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Estimation of Interregional Trade for Finnish Regions in 1996 and 2002 - Freight Flow and Gravity Approaches [PDF]

When interregional trade flows were estimated in Finland for the year 1996 the survey was sent to almost 10,000 establishments in manufacturing, construction and service industries.
Tuomas Louhela
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Context, Mechanism, and Outcome: Explaining Gendered Administrative Burdens on Abortion Access in Italy

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Abortion access in Italy provides a case to examine how gendered administrative burdens emerge through the interplay of legal provisions, informal frontline practices, and contextual influences. Drawing on the Context–Mechanism–Outcome framework from realist evaluation, the analysis shows how legal access to abortion is constrained by ...
Debra Lanfranconi, Markus Hinterleitner
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An extension of the block spacial path approach to analysis of the influence of intra and interregional trade on multiplier effects in general interregional input-output models [PDF]

In a number of recent papers Sonis, Hewings and coworkers have extended spacial path analysis to a block structural context capable of analysing the relationship between direct blocks of influence, such as intra and interregional trade coefficients or ...
Russel Cooper
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HYBRID INTERREGIONAL INPUT-OUTPUT CONSTRUCTION METHODS: APPLIED TO THE SEVEN REGION SPANISH INPUT-OUTPUT TABLE [PDF]

This paper searches for an optimal combination of non-survey methods when constructing a Spanish interregional input-output table for the region of Madrid and the five provinces of the region of Castilla-La Mancha (CLM), given thirteen Spanish regional ...
Jan Oosterhaven, Fernando Escobedo-Cardeñoso   +1 more
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Public Governance of Smart Grid Implementation in Urban Energy Infrastructure

Problemy Ekorozwoju
The relevance of the study is determined by the urgent need to develop institutionally sustainable and governance-effective models for Smart Grid implementation and operation in the context of the digital transformation of energy systems, taking into ...
Nataliia Protsiuk, Hanna Komarnytska, Maksym Khozhylo, Olesya Lobyk, Tetiana Iankovets   +4 more
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Chinese Investment in Mexico: Trade Wars, Nearshoring and Place‐Based Policies

The World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of the first Trump administration's (2016–2022) US‐China Trade War on the sectoral composition and geographic allocation of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mexico. Leveraging a novel dataset of Chinese investment projects (2001–2024) and exploiting product‐level variation in US tariff exposure, we ...
Ernesto Hugo Stein, Agustina Giraudy, Francisco Urdinez, Victor Zuluaga   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional impacts of trade liberalization strategies in Brazil [PDF]

There is a great interest in free trade areas (FTA) in Brazil, predominantly in the context of a proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). In addition, a free trade area between MERCOSUR (the customs union involving Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Edson Paulo Domingues, Mauro Borges Lemos   +1 more
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WTO Compatibility and Rules of Origin – Assessing Bilateral Trade Agreements between Latin America and East Asia WTO-Kompatibilität und Ursprungsregeln – Eine Bewertung bilateraler Freihandelsabkommen zwischen Lateinamerika und Ostasien

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2009
Some theorists and practitioners argue that the stability of the global trade system is endangered by trade distorting effects of regional Free Trade Agreements. Does this also hold true for interregional FTAs?
Howard Loewen
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Why has Indonesiaʼs Food System Performance Slowed Down in Recent Years? A Strategic Note for Food Policy Optimization

Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2027.
ABSTRACT SDG 2 ‘Zero Hunger’ has been a global commitment to ensure sufficient healthy food for all. Accounting for more than 40% of south‐east Asiaʼs population, several millions of Indonesians still face the risk of food insecurity despite of large improvements achieved.
Dadan Wardhana, Rico Ihle
wiley   +1 more source