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Globalization in History: A Geographical Perspective

Crafts, Nicholas; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper argues that a geographical perspectie is fundamental to understanding comparative economic development in the context of globalization. Central to this view is the role of agglomeration in productivity performance; size and location matter. The tools of the new economic geography are...

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Timeliness, Trade and Agglomeration

Harrigan, James; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediategoods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such asfreight charges. The difference arises because of uncertainty. Unsynchronised deliveries candisrupt...

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Shifts in Economic Geography and their Causes

Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

This paper analyses some of the forces that are changing the spatial distribution of activity in the world economy. It draws on the 'new economic geography' literature to argue the importance of increasing returns to scale and cumulative causation processes in shaping the productivity and...

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Economic Geography and International Inequality

Redding, Stephen; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

This paper estimates a structural model of economic geography using cross-country data on per capita income, bilateral trade, and the relative price of manufacturing goods. More than 70% of the variation in per capita income can be explained by the geography of access to markets and to sources...

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Explaining Cross-Country Export Performance: International Linkages and Internal Geography

Redding, Stephen; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper investigates the determinants of countries' export performance looking in particular at the role of … decomposition, we move on to an econometric analysis of the determinants of export performance. Results include the finding that … to explaining Sub-Saharan Africa's poor export performance. …

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