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Gold Mining and Economic and Social Change in West Africa [PDF]

, 2015
Economic theory often suggests that social institutions are strongly influenced by specific geographic features of regions. The history of gold mining in West Africa, however, suggests that the relationship between mineral resources and social ...
Kevane, Michael
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Extractive Mining Landscape and Development of Creative Economy: The Cities of Urals and Western Siberia in the Context of Global Processes

Историко-географический журнал
The article examines the historical and geographical aspect of the process of developing the creative economy (the economy of experiences and services) in industrial cities with an extractive profile.
K. D. Bugrov , A. S. Burnasov
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Industrial restructuring and downsizing: Case study of Central Croatia

Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2016
The collapse of socialist economic system in Croatia was followed by a period of economic transition during which the industry sector was affected by major changes.
Jelena Lončar, Zdenko Braičić
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Manufacturing Productivity, Deindustrialization, and Reindustrialization [PDF]

In considering pathways to industrialization in the twenty-first century, cognisance needs to be taken of the fact that many countries have actually been deindustrializing.
Tregenna, Fiona
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National innovation policy in Cyprus [PDF]

, 2001
This paper analyses the concept of national innovation policy (NIP) and puts forward arguments supporting the need for a NIP for small developing economies like Cyprus.
Argenti, Athanasios Hadjimanolis, Bianchi, Dahlman, Daniels, Dodgson, Keith Dickson, Kogut, Kraemer, Lall, Nelson, O’Donnell, Rothwell, Sagasti, Streeten   +14 more
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Lviv oblast: urgent socio-economic problems in the context of European integration

Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2017
The paper summarizes the contribution of the Ukrainian and Polish scholars into the study of challenges of European integration in Ukraine. It proves the importance of researching socio-economic problems of Lviv region in the context of European ...
Myroslav Biletskyi , Yaroslav Ivakh , Liubov Kotyk   +2 more
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Reindustrialization and institutional change

Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ekonomika
The need for reindustrialization is growing every day. It is justified by the framework of the emerging situation, in which an extremely important need is to overcome systemic failures in the context of institutions’ slow adaptation to new technological conditions.
Elena V. Maslyukova, Vyacheslav V. Volchik, Anastasia A. Barunova, Olesia V. Demakhina   +3 more
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Looking for a virtuous pattern of growth. Some insights for discussion [PDF]

, 2016
Este artículo busca arrojar un poco más de luz en el actual debate «manufacturas frente a servicios» y su papel en el crecimiento económico, tomando como punto de partida la Comunicación de la CE Por un Renacimiento Industrial Europeo.
Benages Candau, Eva, Mas Ivars, Matilde
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Empirical Analysis of Time in Relation to Economic Development. A System of Time Accounts [PDF]

The paper proposes a new approach to the relation between socio-economic development and time. Measuring the economic development of a country by GDP it is obvious that the indicator is an insufficient measure in order to illustrate the progress of the ...
NICOLETA CARAGEA
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Theoretical Perspectives on the Financialization of the Economy

AlterEconomics
This paper examines key research approaches that contribute to a critical reevaluation of financialization and its impacts. Financialization is understood as the expansion of the financial sector, its intrusion into social and private life, and the shift
Andrei V. VERNIKOV , Anna A. KURYSHEVA
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