Rapid development, a widening regional gap, and growing concentration of activities have characterized the Chinese economy since the reforms in the late 1970s. This paper examines the spatial disparities of the economic concentration in different stages of development from a geographic approach...

This study aims to assess the impact of the activity of the Toulon DCN on the Var with the help of two approaches, the first of which is level-based and determines the values of both economic base multipliers and input-output multipliers by composing an input-output table of the Var economy ;...

The development of urbanization and a high population growth rate in large cities are a major feature of Turkey between 1950 and 2000. The degree of urban primacy - whether we consider the share of the largest city or of the two largest cities, Istanbul and Ankara - in the national urban...

This article examines the impacts of the initial industrial structure of Moroccan provinces on their economic growth between 1985 and 1999 using a panel data model dealing with heterogeneous parameters. Results show the importance of both specialization (MAR externalities) and diversity (Jacob...

We develop an economic geography model which examines the spatial concentration of different kinds of activities during four stages of regional development. First, the localization of a "standardized" industry can be based on the exploitation of external and pecuniary scale economies within a...

Theoretical and empirical works do not present clear results concerning the effect of international openness on the geographical concentration of activities in less developed countries. We reassess the main conclusions of the literature to differentiate an "endogeneous" openness linked in a long...