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Cravo, Túlio A.; Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2015

The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...

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The expansion of regional supermarket chains

Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2015

Over the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets. Several factors have been attributed to this growth, including increasing urbanization, increased per capita income, the rise of the middle class, economies of scale and...

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Nationalism and development in Asia

Duara, Prasenjit - 2018

This paper identifies historic patterns in the dialectic between nationalism and development across various East, South, and Southeast Asian nations. Nationalism as the rationale for development is used by regimes to achieve high levels of growth, but also generates exclusivism and hostilities,...

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Mining and economic development : did China's WTO accession affect African local economic development?

Addison, Tony; Boly, Amadou; Mveyange, Anthony - 2016

This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. We compare the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare of mineral-rich districts, both prior and after China's WTO Accession, to the...

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Capitalism and African business cultures

Taylor, Scott D. - 2014

Scholars and practitioners once commonly linked 'African culture' to a distinctive 'African capitalism', at odds with … genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist … African big business reveals that business and profit are culturally acceptable. Existing theories of African capitalism are …

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Global capitalism theory and the emergence of transnational elites

Robinson, William I. - 2010

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Varieties of capitalists? : the middle class, private sector and economic outcomes in Africa

Handley, Antoinette - 2014

Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies - a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state - as key explanations of the troubled political and economic trajectories of many African societies....

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Escaping the periphery : the East Asian "mystery" solved

Wade, Robert - 2018

Few non-western countries have reached the general prosperity of Western Europe and North America in the past two centuries. The core-periphery structure of the world economy created in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution has proved robust, even after seven decades of self-conscious...

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Group inequality and regional development : evidence from Pakistan

Majid, Hadia; Memon, Rashid - 2016

This study explores the patterns and consequences of ethnic and regional inequalities in Pakistan. Using inter-district variation in inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and access to public goods, we extend the literature on public service provisioning by using finer estimates of between-group...

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Approaches to supporting local and community development : Brazil and the Vale SA model of corporate interaction

Filgueiras, Liesel; Rabetim, Andreia; Aché, Isabel - 2017

Reflection about the role of corporate social investment in Brazil, associated with the presence of a large economic enterprise, is the major stimulus of this paper. It seeks to present how cross-sector governance can contribute to the social development of a city and how this process can be led...

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