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This book applies a spatial economics perspective to the understanding of the recent dynamism of the global economy, with particular focus on East Asia, and examines the prospects of regional integration in East Asia
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This book explores how better governance can help Africa to achieve structural transformation (understood to be the … different approaches to institutions and trade and industrial policies and structural transformation in Africa. The book makes … recommendations for a new approach to governance in Africa that can deliver the structural transformation that the continent needs for …
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, challenges and lessons, with a special interest in sustainably advancing West Africa’s regional trade facilitation agenda. It … enhancing West Africa’s trade facilitation agenda as well as the regional economic transformation trajectory. The book … underscores the geopolitics, opportunities and challenges that confront West Africa in the increasingly dynamic regional trade …
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Africa’s competitiveness. Investment is examined in its various forms (financial vs. physical), and sources (private, public … capacity of finance and investment to boost Africa’s competitiveness is assessed to inform continent-wide economic policy …Preface -- Part 1: Financial and Physical Investment in Africa -- Part 2: Trade and Competitivenenss in Africa …
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Integration in Africa and Intra-Regional Trade -- 5. The Export Challenges for African Countries. … reference to those in Africa. The chapters focus on policy making issues in three critical areas that are of major importance in … the African context: capacity building for domestic resource mobilization; regional integration in Africa and intra …
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Part I: Exploring the Africa-to-Africa Internationalization Concept -- Chapter 1 Africa-to-Africa Internationalization …: Emerging Trends and Key Issues (Nathaniel Boso, Ifedapo Adeleye and Lyal White) -- Chapter 2 Africa-to-Africa … Internationalization: Future Trends and Research Avenues (Ifedapo Adeleye and Nathaniel Boso) -- Part II: Research Articles on Africa-to-Africa …
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Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Neoclassical and Post-Keynesian Theories of Regional Growth and Convergence/Divergence -- 3 'Endogenous Growth Theory' and 'New Economic Geography' -- 4 Club Convergence -- 5 Empirical Measure of Regional Convergence -- 6 EU-27 Regions: Absolute or Club...
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Economic and financial crises have brought the rise of unemployment, reduction of economic growth and emergence of global imbalances and tensions as countries and regions have suffered the effects of a variety of internal and external shocks. In this context of constant disruption, the...
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This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public intervention that it suggests. The starting point for the analysis is that economic development in...
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The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union. In Krugman’s New Economic Geography economic systems have a simple spatial structure. This book shows that more sophisticated models should visualise the EU as an evolving...
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