An Investigation of the Relative Importance of Recreation, Park and Cultural Amenities in Business Relocation and Economic Development

2015 ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Jill Decker
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Cultural Amenities ◽  
Business Relocation

Facilitating Political Consumerism in an Emerging Economy

2018 ◽  
pp. 602-622
Author(s):  
Kanang Kantamaturapoj ◽  
Natapol Thongplew ◽  
Suwit Wibulpolprasert
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Consumer Organizations ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Agent Of Change

Thailand, an emerging economy in Southeast Asia, has witnessed the emergence of political consumerism over the last five decades. The start of political consumerism was in 1972 with a boycott of Japanese products due to their economic domination in Thailand. Since then political consumerism has acquired multiple forms. Owing to urbanization and economic development, the expanding urban middle-class has become an “agent of change.” Consumer organizations and business actors have joined forces in strengthening political consumerism. This chapter provides an overview of political consumerism in Thailand as depicted in four cases illustrating the four forms of political consumerism. The four cases demonstrate how consumers use the market as their political arena to participate in societal changes. Recommendations include further studies on mapping the relative importance of sustainability and social concerns among consumers in Thailand and suitable structures for engaging different groups of citizen-consumers in these actions.

Making Investment Choices: Japanese MNEs Investing in Australia and the Region

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Maitland ◽  
Stephen Nicholas ◽  
Economics Research Centre ◽  
William Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Location Theory ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Investment Choices

Regions and countries compete for MNEs. Surprisingly, we know little about policy effectiveness and the relative importance of policy factors and non-policy factors in managerial location decisions. Drawing on internalisation-resource, trade and location theory, this paper develops a model of policy and non-policy location variables, testing the model against 137 Japanese managers??decisions to invest in Australia and the ASEAN5 (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines). Japanese managers treated Australia and ASEAN5 as different regions, but treated the ASEAN5 as the same region. A range of non-policy variables were ranked higher than policy variables as factors attracting Japanese MNEs to Australia or the ASEAN5, while policy variables were most important in shifting investment between ASEAN5 countries. In a study of incentive effectiveness, managers ranked the same incentive variables for Australia lower than for the ASEAN5. We also discovered that the transfer of parent competencies to subsidiaries in Australia was ranked significantly lower in importance than competencies transferred to ASEAN5 countries. Implications for policy-makers and economic development are drawn.

Revisiting The Use Of Financial Incentives As An Instrument Of Regional Economic Development Policy: The Case Of Greece

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
George P. Artikis ◽  
Andreas Merikas ◽  
George S. Vozikis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Economic Development Policy ◽  
Location Policy ◽  
Of Greece

<span>This study investigates the degree of relevance and effectiveness of government location policy to the locational criteria used by manufacturing firms in Greece, by identifying and describing the relevant and important factors for establishing an industrial location in Greece; assessing each location factors relative importance; and finally, comparing and contrasting the importance of financial incentives relative to other location factors.</span>

Small Industrial Enterprise In Bombay, Delhi And Karachi (Review Article)

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-447
Author(s):  
M. Umer Chapra ◽  
John H. Power
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Small Enterprise ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Economic Considerations

Discussions about the role of small enterprise in economic development tend to remain inconclusive partly because of the difficulty of assessing the relative importance of economic and non-economic objectives and partly because of the dearth of factual information on which to base an economic calculus. It is probably true, moreover, that, because of a lack of general agreement as to the economic case for or against small enterprise, non-economic considerations, including some merely romantic attitudes toward smallness and bigness, tend to exert an undue influence on public policies. There may, of course, be no clear-cut economic case. And noneconomic considerations should and will inevitably weigh significantly in policy decisions. If, however, some of the economic questions could be settled by more and better knowledge, these decisions could more accurately reflect the opportunity costs of pursuing non-economic objectives.

A reassessment of the Great Divergence debate: towards a reconciliation of apparently distinct determinants

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-674
Author(s):  
Victor Court
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Clear Pattern ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Reversal Of Fortune ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article looks at the most recent data to define when the Little and Great Divergence occurred. It sorts the deep determinants of economic development into three categories (biogeography, culture-institutions, and contingency-conjuncture) to provides a comprehensive review of these factors in the context of the Great Divergence, and it discusses the concepts of persistence and reversal of fortune. The paper concludes that the Great Divergence was never an inevitability but became an increasingly likely prospect as time progressed. Furthermore, biogeography, culture-institutions, and contingency-conjuncture are not contradictory hypotheses. Rather, there is a clear pattern of change over time of the relative importance of these three categories of determinants. Further research is needed to uncover the underlying causal link or latent variable that could explain the successive relative importance over time of biogeographical, cultural–institutional, and contingent–conjunctural determinants of the Great Divergence.

The Prevention of Health Risks in Cuba

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Guttmacher
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Social And Economic Development

Cuba still has a double burden of health risks. It must contend with some risks to health that persist in underdeveloped rural areas, and it must also deal with the risk factors associated with modern, urban living conditions. The economic and social changes fostered in the postrevolutionary period have reduced the relative importance of the first set of factors, but the changes have also introduced or intensified a myriad of factors derived from their own successes. In this article, the risk factors of greatest concern in contemporary Cuba are described, and the strategies adopted to combat these risk factors, together with the ways in which such strategies are shaped by Cuba's social and economic development are discussed.

Analysis of the Cargo Service Dynamics in East Asian Airports

2012 ◽  
pp. 83-104
Author(s):  
Joyce M.W Low ◽  
Loon Ching Tang ◽  
Xue-Ming Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Air Cargo ◽  
Competitive Edge

This paper examines the effects of primary production and key economic factors on air cargo traffic between 1999 and 2005 in the East Asian airport industry through econometric and clustering analyses. This paper’s findings show that while the relative importance of physical capital to human capital has dramatically risen, adequate provisions and utilizations of physical facilities for landside operations appear to be a more significant driving force for an airport’s cargo traffic performances compared to those of airside operations. Even though cost savings are found to have regained their importance in the recent years, the degree of scale economies has fallen so sharply that airports can no longer rely on size for competitive edge. Nevertheless, there is still a close positive relationship between a nation’s economic development and the volume of cargo traffic at its airport.

scholarly journals Socio-economic development in Guatemala through incentives to the subsistence sector.

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-124
Author(s):  
S.C. Manger Cats
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Group A ◽  
Direct Measures

Subfamily farms (under 7 ha.) defined as too small to fully occupy the operator's family and to provide him with an adequate income, if worked traditionally, now number some 370, 000 in Guatemala. Access to new land and the distribution of production inputs and credit are limited. In the light of this situation some indirect and direct measures are described to reduce the relative importance of this subsistence group. A number of successful projects prove that there is a potential for improvement. T.A. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

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