In this paper we use data from a developing country, South Africa, to empirically identify the
determinants of start-up rates across different sub-national regions and in particular to …

Since its independence, Indonesia has developed fluctuated and uneven. The financial
crisis and political changes has lead to decentralization in 1999, which has entitled local …

This article elaborates and tests a theory connecting the high levels of inequality in many
Latin American states to the failure to develop mechanisms to effectively protect and enforce …

This paper develops a simple two-period model of public good provision within a federation.
A national public good is provided to both states by the federal government, while a local …

Com dados da Pesquisa sobre Padrões de Vida do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e
Estatística (PPV/IBGE) de 1996/1997, fazemos uma análise da relação entre a saúde …

Осуществляется декомпозиция общего межрегионального экономического неравенства
на внутримакрорегиональное и межмакрорегиональное неравенства. Это позволяет …

The literature on economic development has been divided as to the nature of the
relationship between inequality and growth. Recent exploratory work in the field has …

For a long time differing levels of development among countries and regions have been a
subject of concern in the field of development economics. More recently, discussion about …

Abstract Most Latin American economies ended the twentieth century further behind the
United States (in terms of productivity) than they had been in 1950. We investigate whether …

The paper investigates a neglected aspect of regional inequality in Brazil, namely regional
inequalities related to financial flows. A synthetic regional financial inequality index is …