The paper focuses on how localised external, economies of scale created by knowledge spillovers, encourage industrial agglomeration and cause uneven technological development internationally.

Part I summarises some basic facts regarding Norway's food production and consumption, the country's economic policy related to agriculture, food, the environment and trade. Part II focuses on Norway's contribution towards the goal of supplying food to a global population of some 6-8 billions a...

Relationships between prices of goods have held interest within economics in at least two areas - market integration and product aggregation. There is a close relationship between market integration and aggregation, although this has not received much attention in the more recent literature....

The first part of this article gives a brief overview of the main problems facing the developing countries in the present international trading system, and reviews the debate on import substitution vs. export promotion. Towards this background the main part of the article discusses South-South...

This paper focuses on what the driving forces behind industry localisation in Europe are. Based on traditional as well as new trade theory and new economic geography our cross-sectoral empirical analysis seeks to explain the pattern of relative and absolute concentration of manufacturing...