Economic prosperity is vital to human development but relies heavily on material extraction,
which causes environmental degradation. To successfully decouple growth from …

This paper aims to examine the factors affecting the level of development of countries using
various regression models for limited dependent variables including binary logit, probit and …

The Human Development Index is one of the methods how to measure human development.
It measures the level of human development both in the economic and social field. Human …

El estudio de la especialización productiva regional es clave para diseñar políticas de
desarrollo territorial. Sin embargo, las medidas usualmente utilizadas no tienen en cuenta la …

With the aim of proposing recommendations on how to use social and territorial specificities
as levers for wider achievement of climate and energy targets at local level, this research …

Sustainable urban development is a dynamic, continuous, and long-term process. However,
only a few studies have considered the continuous changes in urban development levels …

In the West, innovations in new public management (NPM) have been regarded as part of
the neoliberal project, whilst in China, these reforms have emerged from a very different …

Background Considerable socioeconomic and health inequalities have been reported in
China. However, because of a lack of appropriate data, limited research has been …

Abstract Spatial inequalities within Latin American countries have historically attracted the
interest of academics, policy‐makers, and international agencies. This paper aims to provide …

Analysing post-Mao China is not an easy task, but it is essential in order to understand the
rationale and scope of the reform process started by the Chinese leadership under the …