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This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies,...
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This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ?new economic geography? model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is ?bubbleshaped?, i.e. it...
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In a new economic geography framework with input-output linkages, this study analyses decisions made by foreign firms about their location within Hungary. These firm-to-firm contacts are modelled by creating several corporate customer and supplier access measures for all new foreign...
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Due to globalization competitive firms face increasing economic opportunities for locating their activities in …
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The impact of economic geography both within and beyond the wider field of geography has been constrained in the past by its own limitations. Drawing together the work of several eminent geographers this superb collection assesses the current state of knowledge in the sub discipline and its...
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been challenged in recent years by the new economic geography that emerged in view of globalization and as most nations …
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The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the ‘global … south’. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities—slums, squatter settlements and …. The paper takes a critical look at current assumptions about globalization, urban poverty, and inequality, distinguishing …
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globalization: a global-Asian era. This new era is likely to be distinct from any of the earlier phases of globalization and China …The rise of China as an economic and political driver of the global economy is likely to be one of the defining moments … global order that has held sway for over 60 years. As such, China is beginning to reshape the world, presaging a new phase of …
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concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper discusses … China’s globalization process and estimates an income generating function, incorporating trade and FDI variables. It then …China’s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the world economy, which aggravates …
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