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AbstractOur experience of teaching a graduate‐student module entitled 'Global Cities' in Singapore forms the starting point for reflection on the limitations of the global‐ and world‐cities paradigms. Otherwise varied strands of critique, we argue, may be understood in terms of a common tendency in Anglophone urban and regional research. We term this tendency 'metrocentricity'. While this intervention in many ways echoes important existing critiques (Robinson, 2006; Roy, 2009), it is intended to call attention in particular to the need for alternative practices or ways of doing urban and regional research. After identifying metrocentric tendencies, we consider how teaching and research might be (re)oriented both conceptually and methodologically beyond metrocentricity. In making this case, we invoke insights from feminist geographies that view research as embodied work. Valorizing the diverse, situated practices and engagements of a range of actors — including but not limited to academics — is a key starting point for less metrocentric urban and regional studies.Résumé Notre expérience d'enseignement de troisième cycle à Singapour dans le cadre d'un module consacré aux villes planétaires est à l'origine d'une réflexion sur les limites des paradigmes de ville mondiale et ville planétaire. D'autres axes critiques peuvent, selon nous, répondre à une tendance courante dans les sphères anglophones de la recherche urbaine et régionale, tendance que nous appelons 'métrocentricité'. Par bien des aspects, ce travail fait écho à d'importantes critiques existantes, mais il cherche plus particulièrement à attirer l'attention sur la nécessité de pratiques ou de modes de réalisation différents en matière de recherche sur les villes et les régions. Une fois les tendances métrocentriques identifiées, sont envisagées les possibilités d'orienter ou de réorienter enseignement et recherche sur le plan conceptuel et méthodologique en échappant à cette métrocentricité. Pour exposer cette position, nous rappelons l'éclairage des géographies féministes qui considèrent la recherche comme un travail incorporé. Valoriser la diversité des pratiques et des engagements situés d'un éventail d'acteurs (y compris les chercheurs) constitue un point de départ essentiel pour produire des études urbaines et régionales moins métrocentriques.

The 113th session of the International Labor Organization Governing Body convened in Brussels on November 13, 1950. The agenda of the meeting included the following items for consideration by the Governing Body: 1) action to be taken on resolutions adopted by the International Labor Conference at its 33d session; 2) record of the conference on Rhine boatmen (July 1950); 3) arrangements for the fifth ILO regional conference of American states; 4) arrangements for the regional conference for the near and middle east; 5) first report of the Committee on the Working of the Governing Body and its Committees; 6) methods of associating all members of the organization more closely with the work of the Governing Body; 7) reports of the Finance Committee, the Allocations Committee, the Staff Questions Committee and the manpower committees; 8) reports of the Committee on Industrial Committees, the Technical Assistance Committee and International Organizations Committee; 9) composition of committees; and 10) report of the Director-General (Morse).

This book is the second volume in a new series on 'Great Minds in Regional Science,' which seeks to present a contemporary view on the scientific relevance of the work done by great thinkers in regional science. This volume presents, among others, Adam Smith, Johann Heinrich von Thunen, and Alan Wilson. Each chapter combines factual biographical information about the Great Mind, a description of their major contributions, and a discussion of the broader context of their work, as well as an assessment of its current relevance, scientific recognition, and policy impact. The book attempts to fill a gap in our knowledge and to respond to the growing interest in the formation and development of the field of regional science and its key influential figures.

Mestrado em Finanças ; Esta dissertação procura analisar os fatores que contribuem para o empreendedorismo regional. Para tal, consideramos os fatores de oferta de empreendedores, os fatores de procura de empreendedores e os fatores políticos e institucionais. Os dados utilizados são provenientes do Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) e PORDATA, nos quais consideramos características económicas e demográficas de cada um dos 278 municípios de Portugal continental, durante o período de 2012-2018. Desenvolvemos três regressões multilineares para proceder à nossa análise empírica. Determinámos que regiões com maior população, composta por indivíduos jovens e com educação, e com proporções maiores de população masculina em combinação com um tecido empresarial com uma taxa mais baixa de microempresas, têm taxas de entrada de empresas maiores. Verificámos também que, municípios com taxas de derrama mais reduzidas tem tendência a ter mais atividade empreendedora. Contudo não verificámos significância estatística num conjunto de variáveis no qual se incluí a densidade populacional, ganho médio mensal, taxa de desemprego ou partido político no poder, componentes dos três vetores dos nossos modelos. Concluímos ainda que as variáveis não apresentam significância estatística ao explicar as taxas de saída de empresas apesar de sugerirem relações na mesma direção e menor magnitude em termos de impacto na variável dependente. Os resultados mantêm-se ao analisar a taxa líquida de entrada de empresas. ; This study aims to analyse the factors contributing to the regional entrepreneurship. We consider the entrepreneurial supply factors, entrepreneurial demand factors and, political and policy factors in our analysis. The data used is from Statistics Portugal (INE) and PORDATA and we considered economic and demographic characteristics for all 278 Portuguese mainland counties for the 2012-2018 period. We developed a multiple linear regression analysis to perform our empirical procedures. We find that regions where the population is higher, composed by a younger and high school educated people and with greater proportions of male individuals combined with an economic frame composed by smaller proportions of micro firms, have a higher firm entry rate. We have also found that regions with a lower derrama tax rate tend to have higher entrepreneurial activity. However, we found no statistical significance on a set of variables including the population density, average monthly income, unemployment rates or even the political party in control that are components of the three vectors used in our models. We also conclude that the variables do not have statistical significance when explaining the firm exit rates, even though they suggest similar direction and lower magnitude in terms of impact on the dependent variable. The results hold when analysing the net firm entry rate. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Ch 1: Introduction: Maritime issues and the Indo Pacific -- Ch 2: A Brittle Status Quo in the South China Sea -- Ch 3: Japan, the US, Vietnam and the South China Sea -- Ch 4: China's coast guard, grey zone operations and the South China Sea -- Ch 5: The South China Sea in Multilateral Forums: Five Case Studies -- Ch 6: The Philippine Pivot to China: Threat to Stability in the West Philippine Sea -- Ch 7: Environmental issues in the South China Sea and Blue Solutions -- Ch 8: Assessing Europe's perspectives on the South China Sea -- Ch 9: Japan and the East and South China Seas -- Ch 10: The Contest in the East China Sea -- Ch 11: The Misperception on China's East China Sea ADIZ: Technical Flaws and legal Facts -- Ch 12: Japan and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) -- Ch 13: Historical continuities, geopolitical interests and norms in Japan's Free and Open Indo Pacific -- Ch 14: India and the Indo-Pacific -- Ch 15: The U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy: An American Perspective -- Ch 16: ASEAN and Indo-Pacific Outlook -- Ch 17: Indonesia and Indo-Pacific Cooperation -- Ch 18: Conclusion: Physical connectedness and conceptual divide.

"The labour-market policy-mix in Germany is increasingly being decided on
a regional level. This requires additional knowledge about the regional development
which (disaggregated) national forecasts cannot provide.
Therefore, we separately forecast employment for the 176 German labour-
market districts on a monthly basis. We first compare the prediction
accuracy of standard time-series methods: autoregressive integrated
moving averages (ARIMA), exponentially weighted moving averages
(EWMA) and the structural-components approach (SC) in these small spatial
units. Second, we augment the SC model by including autoregressive
elements (SCAR) in order to incorporate the influence of former periods of
the dependent variable on its current value. Due to the importance of spatial
interdependencies in small labour-market units, we further augment
the basic SC model by lagged values of neighbouring districts in a spatial
dynamic panel (SCSAR).
The prediction accuracies of the models are compared using the mean absolute
percentage forecast error (MAPFE) for the simulated out-of-sample
forecast for 2005. Our results show that the SCSAR is superior to the
SCAR and basic SC model. ARIMA and EWMA models perform slightly better
than SCSAR in many of the German labour-market districts. This reflects
that these two moving-average models can better capture the trend
reversal beginning in some regions at the end of 2004. All our models
have a high forecast quality with an average MAPFE lower than 2.2 percent." [authors abstract]