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Rural–urban inequalities amplified by COVID-19: evidence from South Africa Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Justin Visagie, Ivan Turok
ABSTRACT Like most governments around the world, the South African government adopted a uniform, place-blind response to the coronavirus pandemic, including a hard lockdown. New evidence from a large household survey reveals that the socioeconomic effects have widened pre-existing inequalities between cities and rural areas. More could be done to complement national relief programmes with targeted
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Regional credit distribution in Brazil: the role of state-owned financial institutions Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Fernanda Feil, Carmem Feijo, Carlos Henrique Horn
ABSTRACT State-owned financial institutions (SFIs) play an important role in regional credit distribution and the promotion of structural change and regional economic development, often contributing to regional convergence. The evolution of SFIs in Brazil after the Second World War, through the 1980s’ debt crisis and 1990s’ financial reform and under Workers Party governments in the new millennium
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Linking the medicinal and aromatic plants business to sustainable resource management and economic prosperity: a value chain analysis Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Pramod Chandra, Jitender Kumar
ABSTRACT This study examines the value chain of Uttarakhand’s medicinal and aromatic plants and herbal and herbal healthcare products sector, the roles of different stakeholders, and their contribution to sustainable commercial development and value generation. Organized and unorganized paths in the chain are identified, as is the significant role of middlemen and the need for policy attention to the
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Capitalism, contradictions, crises: pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem? Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Ray Hudson
ABSTRACT Capitalist economies are structured around two fundamental contradictions. The first lies within the social relations of capital, and the second in the ‘metabolic rift’ between capital accumulation and nature. While the adverse effects of the first do create systemic existential crises, capital and its political representatives have discovered ways of temporarily containing them and creating
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Associativity in the Bogotá metropolitan region: coordination challenges in a fragmented region Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Carlos M. Jimenez Aguilar, Ulf Thoene
ABSTRACT The Bogotá Metropolitan Region represents a paradox as it is yet to establish a metropolitan entity. The official discourse on the integration of Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá Capital District, with its surrounding municipalities is at odds with the reality of uncoordinated governance. This research addresses the local and provincial roles of public and private associations in peripheral
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Economic performance of Russian regions’ capital cities Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Nadezhda B. Kosareva, Tatiana T. Polidi’s, Roman A. Popov, Alexander S. Puzanov
ABSTRACT Estimates of the gross urban product (GUP), GUP per capita and GUP growth rates are compared with the level and evolution of gross domestic product (GDP) and gross regional product (GRP) to examine relationships between the structure of urban economies and economic development. Agglomeration economies are manifested in the largest capital cities of Russian regions, but the benefits differ
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Aligning regional priorities with global and national goals: constraints on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6 in rural Bihar, India Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Aviram Sharma
ABSTRACT To achieve United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 and for domestic reasons, the central government of India and several state governments are promoting aligned policies for universal access to sustainable and improved sanitation facilities. As most sanitation-related cross-sectional studies in India are national, this research examines the case of rural Bihar and identifies critical
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On Polanyi Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Ronaldo Munck
ABSTRACT Karl Polanyi provides a rich repertoire of concepts to build a critical understanding of the world of globalization and alternatives to the status quo. In reviewing two recent collections around the work of Polanyi, we show some of the concepts that might be developed in terms of ‘using Polanyi’. This would include his inspired double-movement concept and the way he dealt with non-capitalist
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A magic formula for economic development? Global market integration and spatial polarization in extractive industries Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Sören Scholvin, Moritz Breul, Javier Revilla Diez
ABSTRACT The World Bank, World Trade Organization and others promote integration into global markets as a certain path towards economic development. Some researchers share this optimism, arguing that development is the record of how one thing leads to another, once peripheral locations have plugged into global networks. Comparing resource peripheries in South America, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan
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Power, institutions and rents in two South African cities Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Crispian Olver
ABSTRACT Through case studies of two South African metropolitan municipalities, Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay, the paper explores the way in which the economic advantages at the disposal of local government, referred to as rents, are distributed according to the power relations in cities. The city governance regimes are distinguished in the way that power is structured, the balance between formal
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Everyday politics and sustainable urban development in the Global South Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Jeffrey W. Paller
ABSTRACT This paper introduces a framework of sustainable urban development that considers the everyday politics of cities and their neighbourhoods. First, it considers the challenges facing cities in the Global South, and calls for renewed attention to the daily political struggles of urban residents. Second, it reviews the scholarship on the politics of urban governance and incorporates the politics
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Impact of proximity on knowledge network formation: the case of the Korean steel industry Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Sohyun Park, Yangmi Koo
ABSTRACT Empirical research shows that the relationship between proximity and knowledge cooperation assumes a linear or an inverted ‘U’ shape. This study of knowledge networks in the South Korean steel industry shows that the relationship may assume other forms. Cognitive, organizational and geographical proximity all play crucial roles in explaining the knowledge network. In the case of cognitive
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Mobile phones, informal markets and young urban entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe: An Exploratory Study Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Stanley Tsarwe, Admire Mare
ABSTRACT This study of the uses of mobile phones by Zimbabwean youths engaged in unregulated informal trading in Central Harare shows that mobiles create socio-culturally embedded virtual and non-virtual ‘markets’. The study describes the novel and creative appropriations of mobile phones as informal traders navigate small-scale business opportunities. The theory of social networks and collective action
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Mobility, job accessibility and welfare from jobs in Bengaluru,India Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Kala Seetharam Sridhar
ABSTRACT This study draws on a large household survey to identify the effective labour market of Bengaluru, India, the accessibility of its jobs and the degree to which they are welfare-enhancing. The average journey to work was 28 min, implying that Bengaluru’s effective labour market had increased since 2001. The survey showed that 81% of jobs were accessible within 20 min, while the reported reservation
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Assessment of the inequality of innovative development in the regions of Russia Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Sophia Khalimova
ABSTRACT To identify Russia’s leading innovative regions, indicators for the creation and use of innovations are examined. Through a detailed analysis of both the choice of indicators and the impact of changes in the weights used in index construction, innovation leaders are identified, the sensitivity of their rank position to changes in weights is explored and the stability of their leadership is
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Economic complexity of Brazilian states in the period 1997–2017 Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-07-03 William D. M. Herrera, Julia C. M. Strauch, Miguel A. P. Bruno
ABSTRACT Economic complexity (EC) is a proxy for the productive structure of a given geographical space, reflecting the synergy between local productive systems and institutions. This paper examines the evolution of the EC of Brazilian states from 1997 to 2017. The results show that the states with the highest EC are in the Southeast and South regions, and that in some states EC declined or stagnated
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Decentralisation, entrepreneurialism and democratization processes in urban governance in Tamale, Ghana Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-11 Issahaka Fuseini
ABSTRACT A concept of urban governance involving decentralization, entrepreneurialism and democracy (DED), and designed to promote sustainable and inclusive urban development, is proposed as an instrument of participatory, multi-stakeholder engagements and relationships, on the one hand, and the alignment of policy with gaps that emerge from practice, on the other. This concept is used to assess urban
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Regional absorption capacity and migration decisions in Brazil Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Verônica de Castro Lameira, Eduardo Gonçalves, Ricardo Freguglia
ABSTRACT Individual-level data for 556 Brazilian micro-regions for the period 2003–08 are used to examine the effect of absorption capacity on an individual’s decision to migrate. To achieve this goal, a migration balance index is computed to measure the intensity of the redistribution of general and skilled labour. A hierarchical logit model that simultaneously considers individual- and destination-level
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Bridging the gap between biophysical and social vulnerability in rural India: a community livelihood vulnerability approach Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-04-16 Surendra Singh
ABSTRACT This study of the nature and extent of livelihood vulnerability of farm households in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, India, involved the computation of livelihood vulnerability indices and indices of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity for different social communities. The empirical findings reveal that farmers belonging to Scheduled Tribes (ST) communities were relatively
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Deindustrialization in cities of the Global South Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Seth Schindler, Tom Gillespie, Nicola Banks, Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Himanshu Burte, J. Miguel Kanai, Neha Sami
ABSTRACT Recent research by economists has shown that deindustrialization is more severe in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America than it ever was in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Nevertheless, most research on deindustrialization is focused on the former centres of Fordist manufacturing in the industrial heartlands of the North Atlantic. In short, there is a mismatch
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Implementing the integrated water resources management approach in a volcanic river basin: a case study of Opak Sub-Basin, Indonesia Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Vicky Ariyanti, Jurian Edelenbos, Peter Scholten
ABSTRACT The ways in which integrated water resources management (IWRM) is implemented in a volcanic river basin (the Opak Sub-Basin) on the flanks of Mt Merapi volcano in Indonesia is examined. Data deriving from semi-ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews are analysed through a multilevel governance lens that considers three pillars of management – conservation, utilization and hazard control
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Who is afraid of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’? Geopolitical narratives, agency and the multiscalar distribution of risk Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Meredith J. DeBoom
ABSTRACT This commentary uses a geographical approach to make three points about the multiscalar distribution of risk and opportunity associated with ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ in the context of China–Africa relations. First, although geopolitical narratives are often inaccurate, they affect geopolitical perceptions and, in turn, the distribution of debt-related risk. Second, just as geopolitical dynamics
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Boom city! Regional resource peripheries and urban economic development in Chile Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-19 Johannes Rehner, Warwick E. Murray, Sebastián Rodriguez, John Overton
ABSTRACT Although most studies of resource peripheries are macroeconomic in scale, a regional perspective permits a better understanding of the economic implications of commodity dependence. This study of the boom in commodity exports in Chile in the period 2005–15 shows that while a boom may have adverse effects on other activities, it also had positive impacts on the demand for ‘non-tradable’ construction
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Hard and soft revisited Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-02 Frederico de Holanda
In the postscript to The Social Logic of Space (1984), Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson argue that there are two versions of modernism in urban space: hard and soft. The former invests in continuit...
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Korea’s cultural industry clusters 20 years on: evolving policy and practice Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-11-15 Dongsuk Huh, Byung-Min Lee
ABSTRACT Since 2000 South Korea has implemented discontinuous local cultural and creative industry (CCI) cluster and development policies, especially in non-capital regions. The number of CCIs has increased, but to different extents in different regions, and labour productivity has improved. Disparities between the capital and non-capital regions have, however, increased notwithstanding the goal of
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Self-organized criticality and urban form system dynamics with reference to a Brazilian city Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-07-07 Romulo Krafta, Edson Luiz Bortoluzzi da Silva
ABSTRACT This study of the evolution of urban forms examines the relationship between urban expansion (the enlargement of an urban area) and densification (the increase in the volume of the built form). Densification involves infinitesimally small, dispersed accretions, while the expansion of the urban surface involves the incorporation of larger areas usually on the edge of a city. As a result, built-form
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Contributions of science–technology studies and actor–network theory to urban studies Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Paulo A. Rheingantz, Rosa M. L. R. Pedro, Fabíola B. Angotti, Marcelo H. Sbarra, Juliana M. Guerra
ABSTRACT As a critique of ‘Euro-American realism’, this paper draws on science–technology studies (STS) and actor–network theory (ANT) and its understanding of the social as multiple orderings of heterogeneous things that are not given but are enacted in daily practices. The STS–ANT perspective enables an exploration to be made of the multiple spaces of a place in action, deepening understandings of
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Impact of an economic development plan on regional disparities in Iran Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-24 Mohammad Sharif Karimi, Huseyin Karamelikli, Maryam Heidarian
ABSTRACT This research develops a new multidimensional regional development and quality-of-life index for the provinces of Iran and uses it to examine the evolution of regional disparities during the 4th and 5th Five Year Plans. The new multidimensional development indicator involves the use of the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and Shannon entropy to rank provinces
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Urban form as policy variable for climate-sensitive area planning under heterogeneity: a geographically weighted regression approach Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-23 Surabhi Mehrotra, Ronita Bardhan, Krithivasan Ramamritham
ABSTRACT Although built-up areas exacerbate the urban heat island (UHI) effect, the thermal impact of heterogeneous urban areas remains unknown. In this study geographically weighted regression (GWR) is used to examine the locally variable relationship between land surface temperatures (LSTs) and urban built form (UBF) indices. Sky view factor, built coverage, vegetation, building height, distance
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Trends in mobility in India: issues of labour market integration and exclusion of vulnerable sections of the population Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-18 Amitabh Kundu
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the proposition that the process of migration and urbanization in India has opened up in recent years, enabling people to move freely and leading to labour market integration, using data from the population census and National Sample Survey (NSS). Based on a critical examination of methodological and data-related issues and the insights on migration gained from the recent
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Political favouritism and social conflict: a case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-06-14 Muhammad Waqas, André Torre
ABSTRACT Although the efficiency of social-protection programmes depends on their coverage and the accurate targeting of those in need, the identification of beneficiaries can result from interpersonal relationships and political favouritism. This paper explores the impact of political favouritism on the identification of beneficiaries of Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Sargodha
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Governance for sustainable urban development: the double function of SDG indicators Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-04-05 Stina Hansson, Helen Arfvidsson, David Simon
ABSTRACT At the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the imperative of monitoring progress and holding policy-makers accountable. For this purpose, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 230 global indicators were established with the double function of being a report card and a management tool. In the light of a pilot study about the experiences of local planning officials in
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Is India’s urbanization really too low? Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-03-26 Kala Seetharam Sridhar
ABSTRACT In this paper, two questions are examined: Is India’s definition of urbanization conservative? What would happen if India used a less restrictive definition? To answer the first question, a simple ordinary least squares model is estimated. For 50% of the comparable countries considered, including India, the actual level of urbanization is below the level predicted by the model, suggesting
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Growth, health and gender imbalance: evidence from India Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-03-26 Abhishek Kumar, Arup Mitra
ABSTRACT In an examination of the relationships between imbalanced gender ratios and the growth–health–poverty nexus, a simultaneous equation model (based on panel data) identifies an adverse impact of poor health conditions on the gender ratio. Better health services and health outcomes can raise the survival rate of girl children and women, while a higher gender ratio (a greater presence of women)
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Intellectual property rights and Korean economic development: the roles of patents, utility models and trademarks Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-03-22 Raeyoon Kang, Taehyun Jung, Keun Lee
ABSTRACT This analysis of trends in the number of filings for patents, utility models and trademarks in Korea from 1962 to 2009 identifies a close relationship between the evolution of the mix of these three types of intellectual property rights and the development pathway of the Korean economy, characterized by the successive leading roles of low-technology domestic market-oriented consumer goods
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Regional development policies and the challenge to reduce spatial inequalities in Brazil Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-02-13 Rainer Randolph
ABSTRACT This paper argues that current discussions in Brazil about national regional development policies should be abandoned for now and attention directed towards the regional development agenda at other scales and through other institutional arrangements. More specifically, it offers an understanding of the apparent ‘impossibility’ of creating a national regional policy. After opting for a critical
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The role of networks in determining usage of community currencies in Kenya Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-02-04 Janet Muthoni Kiguru, Radha Upadhyaya
ABSTRACT Past studies have attributed the usage of community currencies to government support, community solidarity, business networks and social networks. Using a mixed-methods approach, this paper examines the role of networks in determining the usage of community currencies in an ethnically heterogeneous community. It argues that while networks are important in determining the usage of community
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Unlocking the potential of private forests in Madhya Pradesh, India Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Sushant
ABSTRACT Trees outside state-owned forests have the potential to meet local and national needs for timber, pulp and allied industries, reduce imports, and increase carbon sequestration. An analysis of the operation of private forestry in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, indicates that the realization of this potential involves a liberalization of existing legislation and specified changes in regulatory
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Spatial spillovers of innovation and transport in Brazil Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-12-24 Herick Fernando Moralles, Naijela Janaina Costa Silveira, Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento Rebelatto
ABSTRACT This study examines the nature and magnitude of the direct and spillover effects of transport investment and innovation expenditures on the economic growth and social development of the 26 states and the Federal District of Brazil. A novel two-equation spatial econometric model is estimated and reveals five paradoxical (unexpected) outcomes in the relationships between economic development
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Inclusive growth through Saemaul Undong in Korea Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-12-13 Jin Kwang So
ABSTRACT Saemaul Undong (SMU) is a ‘comprehensive community development programme’ launched by the government of the Republic of Korea in 1970 to reduce the economic gap between rural and urban areas, and subsequently extended to urban factories, schools and offices. A series of SMU projects designed and operated on the principles of ‘by the people, for the people, and of the people’ contributed to
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Capitalism’s ragged fringes Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-12-10 Michael Dunford
ABSTRACT This Commentary on Eric Sheppard’s ‘Globalizing capitalism’s ragged fringes: Thinking through Jakarta’ elaborates on the concept of fringes, defining them in geographical (the West and the rest) terms and as regards social relations. To explain the differentiation of territorial development pathways, it considers the roles of the variable character of places and interactivity and suggests
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Regional business cycles and employment resilience in Korean regions Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-12-05 Dongju Kim, Saheum Hong
ABSTRACT Monthly employment data were used to analyze regional business cycles and measure the regional employment resilience of 16 South Korean metropolitan areas and provinces in the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis. Indicators of resilience in both a shock-induced contraction phase and a post-shock recovery phase enabled the classification of regions into four groups. An analysis of
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The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): challenges and prospects Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-11-23 Shehryar Khan, Guijian Liu
ABSTRACT The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a US$62 billion project designed to resolve Pakistan’s energy deficit, improve connectivity, and establish economic development zones and supporting social infrastructure that lay the foundations for subsequent economic growth, grapple with endemic instability and exploit Pakistan’s strategic position. Challenges posed by the geographical environment
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Knowledge Gatekeepers and Path Development on the Knowledge Periphery: The Case of Ruta N in Medellin, Colombia Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-11-23 Arnault Morisson
ABSTRACT The literature on path development is increasingly concerned with providing targeted policy recommendations for different regional innovation systems. This paper examines the case of Ruta N, a regional innovation agency operating on the knowledge periphery in Medellin, Colombia. The municipally owned intermediary organization Ruta N stimulates new industrial path development by facilitating
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Employment structure, casualization and wage differential in rural Uttar Pradesh: a disaggregated analysis Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-11-23 Nripendra Kishore Mishra, Udai Bhan Singh
ABSTRACT A transformation of the rural employment structure of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has seen a movement of workers from agriculture to non-agricultural sectors, which was contingent upon regional and individual characteristics. The share of casual workers in non-farm employment grew steadily, especially in the construction sector. Almost 90% of casual labourers belonged to either the Schedule
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Awareness of climate change: differences among Russian regions Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-10-24 Stefanie Lösch, Ostap Okhrin, Hans Wiesmeth
ABSTRACT In the Russian Federation with vulnerable permafrost areas and large forested areas as elsewhere, climate change affects the lives of citizens. Action depends on levels of awareness, a latent variable, calculated by means of a multiple-indicator-multiple-causes (MIMIC) model and indicators derived from regional search entries in Yandex®. The results show that climate change awareness increases
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Commentary on the Area Development and Policy annual lecture by Eric Sheppard, ‘Globalizing capitalism’s raggedy edges: thinking through Jakarta’ Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-10-23 Henry Wai-chung Yeung
ABSTRACT This commentary raises three issues for further (re)thinking about globalizing capitalism’s raggedy edges analyzed in Professor Eric Sheppard’s recent paper. It examines the paper’s epistemology of ‘more-than’ core object/category, its theoretical ‘workings’ of raggedy edges, and its concept of a ‘connectivity-based thinking’.
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Bridging organizations and innovative sustainable development partnerships Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-10-22 Joseph Kweku Assan, Pallavi Gupta
ABSTRACT Cross Sector Partnerships are heralded as a key to solving complex development challenges. With reference to the analysis of fourteen projects implemented in Uttar Pradesh, India, this research develops a Composite Value Creation Framework to advance the understanding of Bridging Organizations and their role in creating innovative sustainable development partnerships. The research shows that
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Globalizing capitalism’s raggedy fringes: thinking through Jakarta Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-10-22 Eric Sheppard
ABSTRACT Thinking through Jakarta, this paper explores the possibility of decentring understandings of conditions of possibility for economic transformation across the post-colony by shifting the optic away from European-style Capitalism. Colonialism, racism and slavery enabled the hegemony of European-style Capitalism, characterized by nation-states and the rule of law. The bulk of the theorizing
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Population mobility and the contrasts between cities in the Russian Arctic and their southern Russian counterparts Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Nadezhda Zamyatina, Ruslan Goncharov
ABSTRACT A comparison of Arctic cities in Russia with their counterparts in the southern parts of the country suggests that there are no significant differences in the degree of employment specialization or in many indicators of social amenities and services. The most important distinguishing feature of Arctic cities in Russia is the high mobility of their populations and the relative ease with which
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When both the state and market fail: inclusive development and social innovation in India Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-07-09 Yuko Aoyama, Balaji Parthasarathy
ABSTRACT In this paper, inclusive development is conceptualized as an outcome of a ‘double failure’: the failure of both the state and the market to deliver basic provisions to the population. Taking the case of India as one of the early adopters of the concept, its previously enacted development policies, associated ideological underpinnings, and inclusive development policies and programmes are examined
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Patronage and politics in a South African city: a case study of Nelson Mandela Bay Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-04-12 Crispian Olver
ABSTRACT A case study of a South African metropolitan municipality, Nelson Mandela Bay (NMBM), explores the dynamics between a political party in power and control over rents from public-allocation processes. The case study documents the weakening of the local state and political control of its allocation processes, linked to the parallel rise of a patronage-based business model within the African
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High-skilled interregional migration and high-growth firms in Russia Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-04-02 Sergey M. Kadochnikov, Anna A. Fedyunina
ABSTRACT This study identifies a non-linear and ‘U’-shaped relationship between interregional human capital mobility, measured using a data set on the mobility of university graduates from the top-100 Russian universities, and the presence high-growth firms (HGFs) in Russian regions. The initial rise in the number of HGFs is due to the relatively low concentration of highly skilled migrants and the
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African dreams: locating urban infrastructure in the 2030 sustainable developmental agenda Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-02-01 Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell, Gareth Haysom
ABSTRACT This paper examines African urban infrastructure and service delivery as an entry point for connecting African aspirations with the harsh developmental imperatives of urban management, creating a dialogue between scholarly knowledge and sustainable development policy aspirations. We note a shift to multi-nodal urban governance and highlight the significance of the synthesis of social, economic
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Exploring the development prospects of Accra Airport City, Ghana Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2018-02-01 Isaac K. Arthur
ABSTRACT This study of Accra Airport City explores the application and potential of the airport-city concept in an African context, and reveals that besides implementing a national agenda of using public–private partnerships to raise Ghana’s competitive profile, the project sought to ensure proper use of space, ease congestion and expand revenue sources for the airport authorities. While the government
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Critical transformations and global development: materials for a new analytical framework Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2017-09-11 Jeffrey Henderson, Nicholas Jepson
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the disconnection between current analyses of global development and 21st-century developmental realities. It argues for a reworking of the development sciences on the basis of ‘transformation analysis’, attending, in particular, to those phases in longer-term social change that it characterizes as periods of ‘critical transformation’. Taking ‘the global’ seriously as
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Beyond Europe: Commentary on Gordon Clark’s perspective on financial intermediation Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2017-09-02 Eric Sheppard
ABSTRACT Gordon Clark assesses the urban and regional infrastructure funding problems created by contemporary developments in the globalization of finance, proposing solutions for the European context. This commentary interrogates the appropriateness of Clark’s approach for the Global South. I suggest that Clark’s discussion of a global savings glut is embedded in a Euro-American, market-equilibrium-oriented
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Russian regional evolutions: comparative gross regional product dynamics of the subjects of the Russian Federation, 1995–2013 Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2017-08-29 Irina Gerasimova, Michael Dunford
ABSTRACT Analysis of the comparative space–time trajectories of 79 subjects of the Russian Federation in 1995–2013 indicates an overall increase in inequality, and enables the classification of areas into two unequal groups. The first includes 80% of Russian regions with below-average gross regional product per capita (GRPPC). These regions have moved closer together, with most growing slower than
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Making sense of the uneven geography of urban and regional growth in the era of financialization: financial intermediation, institutions and markets Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2017-07-26 George C. S. Lin
ABSTRACT This critical engagement with Gordon Clark’s inspirational (re)interpretation of uneven urban and regional growth in the era of financialization calls for a wider concept of financial intermediation that embraces not just the linking of savers and investors but more importantly the development of securitized products. Special attention is drawn to the economic, social and political conditions
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Financial intermediation, infrastructure investment and regional growth Area Development and Policy Pub Date : 2017-07-21 Gordon L. Clark
ABSTRACT Over the past 25 years or so, regional banks and related savings organizations have lost out to new forms of saving and investment. The recent successes and failures of financial intermediation and markets are noted, along with arguments to the effect we are in the midst of a global savings glut. The paper provides a stylized account of how new kinds of financial intermediaries have begun
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