Economics

  2010 MAR 5 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to a study from the United States, "The municipal administration of Dr Ernest Ferroul in the southern French city of Narbonne during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reflected the contradictions within the French socialist movement regarding the purpose of socialist municipalities. While frequently proclaiming violent revolutionary intentions, Ferroul primarily concentrated on issues of local improvements and symbolic gestures of worker solidarity. ...read more

  2010 FEB 26 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to a study from the United States, "The urban slum in the less developed world has an overwhelming significance of place for its dwellers: it determines who they are, what they do, where they go, and whom they know. Unlike most Western cities where the different realms of life (residential, work, religious, public, etc.) are spatially segregated, here they are all functionally and spatially integrated. ...read more

  2010 FEB 26 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to recent research from Netherlands, "The Dutch market for industrial estates is dominated by municipalities who have always felt responsible for supplying sufficient industrial sites at all times. As a result, a number of undesired market outcomes have occurred in this market, including oversupply of land and a high rate of deteriorating industrial estates."

  "Policy interventions have been announced that must improve market outcomes. This paper analyses those undesired market outcomes and compares them with development processes in other European countries. We will argue that the effectiveness of the present set of interventions - all meant to adjust the present institutional order - can be improved, when they are accompanied by interventions meant to restructure this institutional order," wrote E. Vanderkrabben and colleagues, Radboud University ...read more