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domestic technology diffusion. I identify four de facto research centers in China and investigate whether the effect of R …
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During the last 50 years with unprecedented population growth and urbanization, economic development, particularly in developing countries failed to generate adequate employment and income opportunities in the modern sector, compelling the surplus labour force to generate its own means of...
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India and China are without doubt two superpowers in becoming, as they jointly own 40% of the world’s population and … economic development of states in the globalization era relies decisively on the evolution of political interests games at … present in the following some recent economic earmarks of India’s, respectively China’s development, as well as, in conclusion …
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In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...
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This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …
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subcontractors. These new tendencies that include productive globalization, China and the new production chains require the … is the leader in productive globalization (electronic commerce, subcontracting, and commercialization), (ii) the … production of vehicles in China and in East Asia is adding dynamism to the market and provoking strategy changes, and (iii) the …
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Notwithstanding there has been voluminous concern among the researchers and policymakers, the theoretical predictions and empirical evidences regarding the impact of economic integration on spatial concentration of industries are ambiguous. The paper critically reviews the theoretical and...
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Development geography and mainstream economic theory have for many years lived separate lives. Especially so since the downfall of development economics, an academic subject which has repeatedly been pronounced dead by one of today’s leading US economists. The geographical dimension - the...
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We assess whether and how differences in productive public expenditure impacts on industrial location. Since productive public expenditure and taxation affect in opposite direction industrial location, it is not straightforward that following an increase in productive public expenditure in a...
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The aim of this paper is to survey what has been done by the New Economic Geography (NEG) on a regional scale in order to answer the three following questions: what are the predictions of the NEG concerning the future of regions in the triad? Are these predictions robust? What can be the optimal...
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