Rapid development, a widening regional gap, and growing concentration of activities have characterized the Chinese economy since the reforms in the late 1970s. This paper examines the spatial disparities of the economic concentration in different stages of development from a geographic approach...

This study aims to assess the impact of the activity of the Toulon DCN on the Var with the help of two approaches, the first of which is level-based and determines the values of both economic base multipliers and input-output multipliers by composing an input-output table of the Var economy ;...

The aim of this paper is to study the relation between economic development and urban hierarchies?<np pagenum="302"/> evolutions in the Mediterranean from 1960 to 2000. The paper clearly demonstrates that the countries with a higher income per capita (France, Spain, Italy) have a less hierarchical city-size...