Business services,the new engine of French regional growth

This article analyses the evolution of employment in the French regions, putting the accent on business service firms. A ‘shift and share’ type of analysis shows that a primary decentralisation in tertiary activities seems to emerge in the 1990s, essentially pertaining to ancillary producer services. An explanatory analysis backs up the general validity of the regional economic base theory: the basic activities, to which business services can quite legitimately be attached, certainly play a leading long-term role on global employment dynamics. Finally it shows that over the past 20 years, the regional offer of services to businesses has been the major discriminating variable between regions, greatly influencing the evolution of basic employment and thus confirming the vital driving force of this sector in regional dynamics.     

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An Overview of China’s Bond Markets

I.Introduction China's success in developing a fully functioning capital market depends in large part onwhether it succeeds in establishing a thriving market for bonds.The government has,untilrecently,restricted the types of bonds that can be issued in China.But China has realizedthat there are powerful financial reasons to promote the expansion and deepening of theChinese bond market.Among the most important are,first,that bonds would be desirableadditions to the portfolios of Chinese insur…     

Analysis of the Changes in the Growth of Japan’s Direct Investment in and Trade with China

I. Relative Drop in the Proportion of Japan’s Direct Investment in ChinaCompared with the United States and the EU, Japan’s direct investment in China hasslowed down since 1999, with the relative real size of investment dropping. Table 1 shows that Japan’s direct investment in China was slightly more than that of the USA and much more than that of the EU before 1998. But in the ensuing five years from 1999 onward, the situation was reversed. The US direct investment in China rose …     

The EU’s Medium-term Financial Perspective and Turkey’s Potential Slice of the Cake

The issue of Turkey’s membership in the EU remains controversial, and the arguments for and against are not only economic. Nevertheless, the potential economic impact of Turkish membership does play an important role. How much financial support is Turkey presently receiving under existing pre-accession programmes and what changes could be expected in the case of full membership?     

Analysis of South Korea’s Direct Investment in China

I.General Situation of South Korea’sDirect Investment in ChinaSouth Korea’s investment in China has increased dramatically since1992,when the twocountries formallyestablished diplomatic relations.According to China’s statistics,in1992,South Korea’s direct investment in China was only US$119million.By2002,it reachedUS$2.721billion–a26.78percent annual growth on average.This was much higher thantheaverageannual growth ofinvestmentby other countries in China,which stood at10.87 pe…     

There Is No Food Crisis in China

In1995LesterR.Brown wrote abook entitled Who willfeed China?(Brown,1995),whoseerroneous contentcaused great losses to China’s economy.The Chinese government tookMr.Brown’s argument at facevalue,and encouraged peasants to overproduce by setting aprotectively high price.Over time,this has used up several hundred billion yuan to pay thedifferencebetweentheofficialpriceand marketprice.Tostorethesurplusfood,thegovernmentappropriated several more billion yuan to build warehouses.However,there …     

A non-homogeneous non-uniform influence model of innovation diffusion

A model of innovation diffusion which gives unequal weightage to the adopters of different temporal stages and captures commonly observed ups and downs in new product diffusion is proposed. It is shown that our model possesses features of the existing flexible diffusion models and shows better fit which is indicated by the values of R²_adj, mean absolute deviation, and mean percentage error and estimates a larger market potential, M. It has an interesting feature of conversion factors, first increasing then vanishing, much before we approach market saturation, implying that there is a scope of new thrust in converting remaining potential adopters.     

What Profit in Teaching Economics?

The role of profit in stimulating entrepreneurial discovery is often misrepresented in economics teaching in schools at worst as capitalist greed and at best is usually ignored. David Parker, Senior Lecturer in Business Economics at the Polytechnic of Newcastle upon Tyne, considers the history of profit in economic analysis and calls for a fundamental re-appraisal of its importance.