scholarly journals Multifunctional agriculture: An engine of regional economic growth?

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Randall
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Regional Economic Growth ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Multifunctional Agriculture ◽  
Regional Economic

The historical role of agriculture in economic geography and recent conceptual developments – including multifunctional agriculture (MFA), the new economic geography, amenity-driven growth, and the “world is flat” and “creative class” hypotheses – are examined, and recent empirical research in NorthAmerica and Europe is reviewed, in order to assess the potential for MFA as an engine of regional economic growth. Ideal MFA policy corrects market failures and is mostly amenity-augmenting. It has the capacity to enhance opportunities for farmers on urban fringe; stimulate growth in high-amenity rural regions accessible to cities that offer opportunities for high-value work; and generate growth in relatively remote high-amenity regions. The scope for market-failure-correcting MFA policy to propel economic growth in lessfavored regions is limited – remoteness is non-responsive to policy in the short to medium term, and amenities that attract in-migration (e.g. proximity to sea, lakes, mountains, pleasant climate) are givens for favored locations but can at best be complemented by pro-active policy – but not trivial. While this paper focuses on regional economic growth, it well to rememberthat growth is not everything. Regions unlikely to experience growth need to create satisfying futures. Market-failure-correcting MFA policy has the potential to improve quality of life, well-being, and perhaps incomes in many if not all rural places regardless of location. This accomplishment would not be trivial – economic growth for all regions regardless of resources, amenities, and remoteness is not a serious prospect, and regions in decline face daunting problems maintaining essential services and quality of life.

scholarly journals The Impact of High-Speed Railway on China’s Regional Economic Growth Based on the Perspective of Regional Heterogeneity of Quality of Place

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4820
Author(s):  
Shanlang Lin ◽  
Prithvi Raj Dhakal ◽  
Zhaowei Wu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Regional Economic Growth ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
Quality Of Place ◽  
Investment In Fixed Assets ◽  
The Impact

Transport enables trade between people, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Transport is a crucial necessity for specialization, allowing production and consumption of products to occur at different locations. High-speed rail (HSR) allows the flow of people between regions, cities, countries. With rapid global development in HSR technology for passenger transportation, it plays a vital role in transportation systems. The improvement of the quality of cities with different emphasis will bring different economic development results. Therefore, exploring the impact of high-speed railways and quality of place on economic development is necessary. This paper takes the prefecture-level city with a high-speed railway opened in 2008–2013 as the research sample and takes other prefecture-level cities in the country as the control group. The study findings revealed that employment, investment in fixed assets, average wage, and higher education institute significantly affect China’s regional economic growth. Institute of higher education reflects the negative effect on the regional economic growth whereas the employment, investment in fixed assets, and average wage rate positively impact it. Based on the results, it can be concluded that China’s regional economy is significantly affected by its quality.

scholarly journals Quality of Life, Using Science and Economic Growth and Mathematical Analogue Model of Their Indices

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
Rem Zadneprovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Prognostic Models ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Analogue Model ◽  
Time Dynamics

The aim of the work is to use the mathematical modeling apparatus to discover the relationship between real indicators of economic growth and well-being of the population with the quality of life of individual citizens. The subjective perception of the quality of life by the subject and the researcher makes this problem quite difficult for mathematical formalization. Digitalization of all types of human activity becomes one of the problematic aspects for modeling its status in the surrounding society. On the other hand, it allows you to Bank available solutions to the main tasks in human activity to create a comfortable living environment. The technique of formalization is considered and applied from the standpoint of General laws of motion and time dynamics of processes in natural environments (mechanical, electrical, biological systems), which may have a damping or exponential-wave character. Based on the proposed dependent equations, we offer a minimum list of factors that are necessary for the construction of predictive models. Taking into account the proposed factors, prognostic models are made that allow determining the current state of human quality of life with a sufficiently high probability in connection with the dynamic characteristics of the environment and socio-economic conditions of its life.

scholarly journals Economic growth as a key factor in the dynamics of level and quality of life of Ukrainian population

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 06016
Author(s):  
Alexander Frolov ◽  
Marina Kosich ◽  
Elena Aleksandrova ◽  
Olga Mozgovaya ◽  
Olga Komarenko
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Poverty Trap ◽  
Current State ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Changing Rate

The objective of this article is conducting the analysis of economic growth, being a key factor in the dynamics of level and quality of life of the population, as well as to develop the related suggestions, in order to accelerate and stabilize such processes in Ukraine. This research presents the analysis of the real GDP’s changing rate in recent years, along with the assessment of another evidence of the economic growth i.e. the income of the population. The related crosscountry comparative analysis of the level of population’s well-being has been performed. The reasons for Ukraine’s significant lagging behind its neighboring regions and other European countries in terms of main economic indicators have been determined. We’ve defined the “poverty trap”, the authors believe that it is the current state of Ukrainian Economy. The related suggestions aimed to accelerate and stabilize the economic growth in Ukraine have been developed.

Innovation and Sustainability and Quality of Life

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.G. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Complex Relationships

As important current and increasing future sources of innovative economic initiatives, universities are unavoidably confronted by the challenging issues of sustainability and quality of life. The harmonization of social and economic goals will impact very significantly on their innovative activities in relation to both processes and outcomes. Approaches and objectives will be selected which combine potential economic significance with due concern for the physical environment and social well-being. The special characteristics of universities suggest that they are uniquely well suited to clarify the conceptual basis underlying the complex relationships between economic growth, sustainability and quality of life. This pressing task must be carried out so that governments, business and other social institutions are able to reflect the results in their policies and operational interrelationships.

Entrepreneurial Process and Financial Well-Being Generated by a Colombian Association of Vulnerable Individuals

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Liyis Gomez-Nuñez ◽  
Luis Javier Sanchez-Barrios
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

Entrepreneurship is considered relevant in the economic growth of nations because of its impact in the creation of new jobs and innovations in the social and economic fields. Thus, governments and academia worldwide have shown interest on how to leverage on entrepreneurship in order to develop strategies that improve the quality of life of individuals. Entrepreneurship as a development strategy is extensive; it goes from the creation of new enterprises born as a result of a high market potential to those that arise as the only income-generating alternative. This chapter addresses the study of the entrepreneurial process in organizations created by associations of vulnerable individuals engendered by the income generation need, and using as reference the case of AGROSEC, located in Colombia. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources. Five interviews were completed using pre-established protocols that were applied to 3 members of the association.

The Linguistics of Health and Agriculture

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-38
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Aurora Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Natural Products ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Balanced Diet ◽  
The Way

Abstract The present article focuses on the importance of natural products on the human body. Based on various researches, our aim is to highlight the consequences that a proper and balanced diet impacts on the quality of life. Based on Schopenhauer’s saying that 10% of our happiness is based on health, our intention is to identify the products that impact human chemistry. Studies prove that the way we eat can have an influence of between 30% to 50% with regard to the onset of various types of cancer. What we eat can influence the illnesses our bodies would create within 10, 20, 30 years. More recent studies show that our mind is responsible for our psychological and physical well being. Also, we focus on how rural agricultural development could lead to economic growth for the country.

scholarly journals EVOLUTION OF WELLBEING THEORIES IN THE POSTULATES OF ECONOMIC SCHOOLS AND CONCEPTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1(13) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Iryna M. Hrynchyshyn ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Endogenous Development

The article presents the evolution of wellbeing theories in the postulates of economic schools and concepts. It has been established that the first period of development of economic wellbeing theories was marked by polarized tendencies of market or state domination, which led to the consideration of social wellbeing by economists-theorists in the macroeconomic aspect. It has also been found out that forming the foundation of future scientific research their representatives laid the foundations for methodological understanding and development of many economic theories. The second direction of development of wellbeing theories is based on the imperatives of economic growth (location theories, neoclassical theories, theories of cumulative growth, institutional theories and new theories of regional development). It has been found that the rethinking of approaches to local and regional development at the present stage is associated with the actualization of the theory of endogenous development and the concept of local economic development (place-based theory). It has been found out that along with theories of well-being based on the economic concept, theories that determine the social status of people from the standpoint of their high standard of living and human development are widespread in international research. The third direction of wellbeing theories, related to the search for measures of human development that go beyond GDP, is now formed from an alternative flow of scientific thought in the established scientific direction. The end of the last century was marked by a significant interest in social indicators, outlined in various doctrinal forms: social progress, human development, quality of life, wellbeing in a new sense, as well as increasing attention to the individual and their original organizational groups (family, households, communities), and the definition of their weight in the relationship «state-market». Common expression of these concepts is a person whose view transformed from a purely materialist understanding of their wellbeing to a broader point of view – a person who professes values and is in collective interaction. The present study of the evolution of wellbeing theory indicates the need for the formation and implementation of public policy in the direction of intensifying local development and provision of high quality public services based on the principle of subsidiarity. Keywords: wellbeing, state, market, territorial community, economic growth, local economic development, human development, quality of life, subjective well-being

scholarly journals A Study of Regional Economic Policy Focusing on Three Approaches

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Sam Youl Lee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Regional Economic Growth ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Quality Of Place ◽  
Industrial Mix

Regional economic growth can have a quite different dynamic and logic than national economic growth. This paper empirically investigates whether three major approaches to regional economic development: industrial mix, human capital, and quality of place significantly contribute to the regional economy. This paper tests the hypotheses using ordinary least squares (OLS) based on state-level data from the United States. The OLS results indicated a significant effect of industrial mix on regional economic growth when other factors were controlled for, though significance levels differed depending on the definition of "high-tech industry". The joint hypothesis test on human capital and quality of place showed they were statistically insignificant. The insignificance of the human-capital variables was different from the expectation. This may be caused by the fact that the level of analysis of this study is a state rather than a city, which may dilute the concentration of human capital in major cities. The significance of the industrial mix variables is meaningful because the positive relation between the concentration of high-tech industries and regional economic growth supports regional governments' efforts in Korea to establish or lure more high-tech industries into their regions. However, because the result is sensitive to various definitions of high-tech industries, it needs cautious interpretation.

Entrepreneurial Process and Financial Well-Being Generated by a Colombian Association of Vulnerable Individuals

2019 ◽  
pp. 200-217
Author(s):  
Liyis Gomez-Nuñez ◽  
Luis Javier Sanchez-Barrios
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

Entrepreneurship is considered relevant in the economic growth of nations because of its impact in the creation of new jobs and innovations in the social and economic fields. Thus, governments and academia worldwide have shown interest on how to leverage on entrepreneurship in order to develop strategies that improve the quality of life of individuals. Entrepreneurship as a development strategy is extensive; it goes from the creation of new enterprises born as a result of a high market potential to those that arise as the only income-generating alternative. This chapter addresses the study of the entrepreneurial process in organizations created by associations of vulnerable individuals engendered by the income generation need, and using as reference the case of AGROSEC, located in Colombia. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources. Five interviews were completed using pre-established protocols that were applied to 3 members of the association.

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