Across our seven-county region, Greater Portland Inc strives to create career opportunities and drive regional economic development and prosperity.
In this chapter, we provide an overview of the main socioeconomic and political developments of the Middle East over the last century, i.e., since the fall of the Ottoman Empire to present days. In general, economic activity in the region is mostly based on natural resources, in particular...
Small Business Assistance Information by Industry Growth Areas Louisa County is located in the Central Piedmont region of Virginia near the geographic center of the state. Louisa is just 15 miles west of Greater Richmond, the state capital, and 15 miles east of Greater Charlottesville, home of th...
This paper’s core explanatory variable, i.e., China’s foreign aid, may have endogeneity with economic growth in the recipient country. With the main goals of reducing poverty and improving people’s welfare, China may give...
We also identified a new R&D use case for nongenerative AI: deep learning surrogates, the use of which has grown since our earlier research, can be paired with generative AI to produce even greater benefits. To be sure, integration will require the development of specific solutions, but the ...
sources other than shipping. The latter point is significant because it has been found that the cloud-seeding effect of aerosols is greater in pristine air than in air that is already polluted, a phenomenon known as non-linearity (25). It would therefore be expected that the warming effect ...
Despite their value, coastal ecosystems are globally threatened by anthropogenic impacts, yet how these impacts are driven by economic development is not well understood. We compiled a multifaceted dataset to quantify coastal trends and examine the role of economic growth in China's coastal degradation...
HKIA is a global hub providing unparalleled connectivity to half the world’s population within five hours flying time, the best intercontinental connections in East Asia and extensive land and sea connections to cities throughout the Greater Bay Area (GBA). ...
4. The spatial spillover direction of China’s interprovincial economic resilience is generally characterized by “west to east” and “north to south”. During the study period, this spatial spillover trend gradually increases over time, and the polarization effect is greater than the trickle-...
‘Twin City region’) will be the fourth such economic cluster to be built in China and the first in the west of the country, following the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region in the north, theYangtze River Delta(YRD) region in the east, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-MacaoGreater Bay ...