This study discusses the impact of economic geography and (low) population density on development outcomes in Mali and … north Mali which started in 2012 and continues to date has brought questions of economic geography to the center of …

"Economic geography has become a mantra for many economists, geographers, and regional scientists. Previous studies … have tested the importance of economic geography for production activities and found a significant association between them …. Most of these studies, however, have not taken into account that economic geography influences location decisions at the …

average, African firms face more adverse economic geography and operate in poorer institutional settings. Once they control … for the quality of institutions and economic geography, what in effect is a negative African dummy disappears from the … firm level exports equation they estimate. One part of the effect of geography operates through Africa's lower "foreign …

Places do well when they promote transformations along the dimensions of economic geography: higher densities as cities … Geography reframes these debates to include all the instruments of integration spatially blind institutions, spatially …???s developers can reshape their economic geography. If they do this well, their growth will still be unbalanced, but their …