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Geographical Economics and the Role of Pollution on Location
van Marrewijk, Charles - 2005
equilibrium framework. We investigate the impact of pollution by focusing on the interaction between location advantages and …Geographical economics analyzes the endogenous determination of the location of economic activity in a general … negative pollution externalities associated with local production. We distinguish between two goods (food and manufactures) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325230
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The geographical location of manufacturing exporters in South Africa
Naudé, Wim; Matthee, Marianne - 2007
This paper provides empirical evidence on the location of export-oriented manufacturing firms in Africa (South Africa …), and on how the patterns of location has changed over the past decade after the country embarked on trade liberalization …' location, with more than 70 per cent of manufacturing exports in South Africa originating from a band of 100 km from a port …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284547
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Locating Economic Concentration
Hinloopen, Jeroen; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2004
We analyze the distribution of economic activity across space for different types of activity and different levels of aggregation. Not only is this distribution highly uneven (independently of the type of activity and level of aggregation), it is also remarkably regular regarding its size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326749
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The politics of rural development in Europe
Nemes, Gusztav - 2005
This paper explores the evolution of rural policies in EU, making some comparisons with CEE rurality. In the first chapter I explore some theoretical concepts on how policies are transferred from one country to another, what a policy paradigm means and how it might change over time with special...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494317
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Integrated rural development - The concept and its operation
Nemes, Gusztav - 2005
Our paper explores, on a theoretical level, the reason for frequent failures of rural development policies and identifies some potential improvements in rural policy making in Europe. Our approach to des/integration concerns actors, resources, institutions, knowledge, the fundamental logic of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494331
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Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning from successes and failures
Zoomers, Annelies - 2006
This article aims to contribute to the discussion about how to make development interventions more effective by analyzing the factors contributing to the success or failure of rural development projects. We made an aggregate level analysis of 46 projects in the field of agricultural research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284720
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Foreign aid and sustainable energy
Gomez-Echeverri, Luis - 2013
Energy is linked to most of the major global challenges of the twenty-first century. Poverty eradication, climate change, ecosystem management, world health and security are all influenced by energy, its availability, cost, emissions and other impacts. Unfortunately, energy systems as currently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333704
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Economic geography and Urban environmental pollution
Quaas, Martin; Lange, Andreas - 2004
This paper studies Krugman's (1991) core-periphery model and extends it to include environmental pollution. We present … local environmental pollution, a third and more realistic type of equilibrium may occur in which most of the manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422118
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Collision of lions and butterflies or mutual neglect - outside the Anglo-American domain, too? The publication and citation behaviour of economic geographers and geographical econo...
Sternberg, Rolf - 2013
This paper compares the publication and citation behaviour of economic geogra- phers and geographical economists. Based on a unique data set and consciously limited to researchers in the German-speaking world, empirical analyses show more parallels than expected. Convergence of scholars from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291824
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Geography and development in Africa: Overview and implications for regional cooperation
Naudé, Wim - 2007
Geography causes African countries to experience a ‘proximity gap’. To overcome this gap a ‘big push’ may be needed in infrastructure. The cross-border nature of such infrastructure requires regional cooperation in at least four issues: transport infrastructure, trade facilitation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323517