The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1984http://hdl.handle.net/2262/685332024-03-19T09:09:18Z2024-03-19T09:09:18ZAccessibility and urban-growth rates - evidence for the irish urban systemKeane, Mjhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/687402018-08-10T14:10:23Z1984-01-01T00:00:00ZAccessibility and urban-growth rates - evidence for the irish urban system
Keane, Mj
Urban growth is a complicated process and any quantitative analysis is unlikely to replicate growth rates very well. This paper explores one particular relationship in the context of Irish urban centres, that between growth rates and accessibility to larger centres. That this is an important relationship is noted in a recent NESC study (O'Farrell, 1979). There it is suggested that with increased urbanisation "location relative to the range of external economies available in metropolitan centres becomes more important" (O'Farrell, 1979, p. 57) as a determinant of urban growth.
1984-01-01T00:00:00ZEntrepreneurship and development - an alternative perspectiveMccullagh, Chttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/687392018-08-10T14:10:23Z1984-01-01T00:00:00ZEntrepreneurship and development - an alternative perspective
Mccullagh, C
Abstract: This paper offers an alternative to the more orthodox psychological approach to the study of entrepreneurship. It suggests that an adequate theory of entrepreneurship must consider a country's political and economic history and especially the way in which this history has structured the opportunities for economic gain open to social groups in the society. It further suggests that due to the different historical experience of underdeveloped countries, and especially international monopoly capital, these opportunities will be differently structured in such societies. Whilst the particular structure may not lead to development, it will be maintained by the class structure and political system which emerges in such societies and which may resist attempts to alter that particular structure of economic opportunities. However, while such opportunities are so structured, analysis of entrepreneurship must also consider why there might be differential response to such opportunities in a society. This, it suggests, can be explained in terms of the degree of role continuity and congruity in economic roles in the society. Consideration of both the historical and the economic role level is essential for the study of entrepreneurship.
1984-01-01T00:00:00ZPopulation trends in late 19th and early 20th-century ireland - a local studyBreen, Richardhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/687382018-08-10T14:10:23Z1984-01-01T00:00:00ZPopulation trends in late 19th and early 20th-century ireland - a local study
Breen, Richard
Abstract: The investigation of Irish demographic trends in the half century following the Famine has generally been conducted using figures relating to large areas. In this paper an attempt is made to examine the applicability of some of the hypotheses that have been developed in this context to the demographic changes that occurred in one particular community and which have been investigated in the course of local-level anthropological research.
1984-01-01T00:00:00ZComponents of growth in current public-expenditure on education and healthOhagan, JKelly, Mhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/687372018-08-10T14:10:23Z1984-01-01T00:00:00ZComponents of growth in current public-expenditure on education and health
Ohagan, J; Kelly, M
Abstract: This paper examines the growth in the GDP share of current public expenditure on national, vocational and university education in Ireland between 1961 and 1979 in terms of four factors: transfer changes, demographic changes, enrolment changes, and movements in relative "costs". The change in the relative cost of hospital care between 1966 and 1979 is also estimated.
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