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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

perspective—about the BRI. The connectivity project, which comprises the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road, involves a vast collection of development and investment projects stretching from East Asia to Europe.... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Kenya to help me with FIELD Global Immersion? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries. To begin,... View Details

16 Mar 2010
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"course researchers," whose class participation can be exceptionally valuable in the theory-building process. Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Captial Expansion Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Henry Chen, Anna Kovner, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan

keyword and geography keywords in search (ex: commodities Taiwan). Search tips: use concise keywords. Go to "Analysis" section for full industry reports; Go to "Consumers" section to brows reports on... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Peru

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Peru? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries. To begin, enter industry and View Details

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income and benefits, health insurance, education, and veteran status. See list of survey subjects . United States Census: Business and Economy Business and industry economic statistics by geography and by... View Details

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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa

By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

We examine the long-run consequences of a neglected aspect of colonization, the artificial drawing of borders during the Scramble for Africa and uncover the following empirical regularities. First, apart from the land mass and water area, no other pre-colonial trait... View Details

Keywords: Africa; Conflict; Development; Ethnicity; War; Development Economics; Geography; Africa

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14 Oct 2014
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information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Real estate: emerging markets

Workspace Introduction. Urban Land Institute
Search the Urban Land Institute collection of research reports for access to their regional Emerging Trends in Real Estate series. The site also allows you to limit your search by View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Vietnam

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Vietnam? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries. To begin, enter industry or keyword and View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Finland

keyword and geography keywords in search (ex: restaurants China). Search tips: use concise keywords. Go to "Analysis" section for full industry reports; Go to "Consumers" section to brows reports on consumer... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Thailand

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Thailand? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries. To begin, enter industry or keyword and View Details

2021
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Property Rights and Urban Form

By: Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti and Andrei Shleifer

How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities? This paper incorporates insecure property rights into a standard model of urban land prices and density, and makes... View Details

Keywords: Property; Rights; City; Development Economics; Global Range

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10 Aug 2015
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Seeding a Better Future for Colombia

Part architectural spectacle, part tourist attraction, and part government-sponsored stage for forums and meetings that seed progress on key economic and diplomatic fronts, World Expos have been taking place since the 1850s. Colombia... View Details

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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (B)

By: Alberto Cavallo and Christian Godwin

By December 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had swept across the globe, creating widespread disruption in all aspects of everyday life. Almost 90 million people had been infected and nearly two million had died from the disease. By this point in the pandemic—a year since... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Economy; Health Pandemics; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Global Range; Crisis Management; Disruption

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The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market

Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Urban Scope; Rural Scope

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Where to Launch in Africa?

By: Eugene F. Soltes

A case study in the management of new business enterprises in developing countries is examined. A dilemma facing a Malawian entrepreneur in whether to locate a packaging industry new business in his native Malawi or in the larger market of Nigeria is examined.... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Africa

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