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Prefazione
No full textPrefazione al volume BIGGERI M., BELLANCA N. (a cura di) che nasce dall'esigenza di aumentare l'impatto delle politiche regionali nei confronti di persone con disabilità per migliorarne il benessere individuale, quello della famiglia e della collettività. L'approccio teorico è quello delle capability di A.Se
I fattori chiave della recente crescita economica in Cina: uno Studio a Livello Regionale
No full textThe aim of this paper is to analyse the main factors that have affected the economic growth of Chinese provinces during the period 2002-2006, exploring the impact of reforms in different periods. The production function approach focuses on human capital, “space-serving” infrastructure and institutional changes. Ad hoc indices are elaborated and provincial capital stocks estimated. The empirical results indicate the positive role of capital stock, human capital and physical infrastructure and underline that institutional changes affected the level of aggregate output. The policy implications suggest redistribution to the poorest provinces and investing in human capital and infrastructure, in order to overcome supply bottlenecks and attract local and foreign investment
Towards a ‘harmonious society’? Multidimensional development and the convergence of Chinese provinces
Full text linkThe paper analyses multidimensional patterns of development across Chinese provinces over the last two decades (1993–2016) from a balanced or ‘harmonious society’ perspective. The harmonious multidimensional index and other indexes are introduced to explore different development patterns among Chinese provinces. In order to analyse multidimensional convergence amongst the provinces, β- and σ-convergence methods are applied. The results indicate that recent efforts to move towards a ‘harmonious society’ are paying off, although notable differences across provinces remain and specific domains deserve special consideration
Is the slowdown of China's economic growth affecting multidimensional well-being dynamics?
Full text linkAfter many years of outstanding GDP growth and structural changes, China is now facing an economic slowdown. This paper aims to analyse the effects of this slowdown on individual well-being, from a multidimensional and provincial perspective. The empirical analysis is based on data obtained from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, for the 2011 and 2015 waves. The notions of moderate prosperity, harmony and balanced growth pursued by the Chinese Government are used to select nine dimensions. These dimensions – based on 56 variables – are aggregated into an individual well-being index using the Multidimensional Synthesis of Indicators technique. The econometric results reveal that, in the 2011–2015 period, individual multidimensional well-being stagnated; moreover, some dimensions were affected much more than others, according to individual characteristics (e.g. age, gender) and geographical differences (e.g. urban/rural, east/west provinces). This creates new challenges for the central and provincial governments of China, in their pursuit of a more ‘harmonious’ and balanced development
Small and medium enterprise theory: evidence for Chinese TVEs
No full textThe research analyses small and medium enterprises (SMEs), i.e. township and village enterprises (TVEs), operating in rural China over the last decade. It focuses on factors that affect the growth of TVEs run by Township and Village (TV), defined as collective, at provincial level. The paper examines SME theory and the role of human capital in the SMEs development. Following this, it analyses the development of Chinese TVEs and their role in the socio-economic development of rural areas and of the national economy. A panel analysis is then performed, using provincial panel data of collective TVEs over the period 1986-93, in order to capture the major determinants of provincial growth. The results of the panel estimations highlight some important features of TVEs run by TV sector, and provide empirical evidence in support to the positive role of clustering (measured through a new index) and human capital in the provincial growth of this sector. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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