Ethnic Geography and Regional Economies, 1880-1960

Martin T. Katzman

doi:10.2307/143178

The Coin of the African Realm

10.23943/princeton/9780691164137.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jeffrey Herbst

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

West Africa ◽

West African ◽

Regional Economies ◽

African Countries ◽

New Strategies

This chapter examines the politics of the currency in West Africa from the beginning of the twentieth century. A public series of debates over the nature of the currency occurred in West Africa during both the colonial and independence periods. Since 1983, West African countries have been pioneers in Africa in developing new strategies to combat overvaluation of the currency and reduce the control of government over the currency supply. The chapter charts the evolution of West African currencies as boundaries and explores their relationship to state consolidation. It shows that leaders in African capitals managed to make the units they ruled increasingly distinct from the international and regional economies, but the greater salience of the currency did not end up promoting state consolidation. Rather, winning the ability to determine the value of the currency led to a series of disastrous decisions that severely weakened the states themselves.

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High Technology Policy in the Alpes-Maritimes and in British Columbia: Two Cases of Adapting Regional Economies to Globalization

Journal of Canadian Studies ◽

10.3138/jcs.37.4.33 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 33-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Adrian van den Hoven

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Technology Policy ◽

High Technology ◽

Regional Economies

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Formation of innovative territorial clusters as basis of increase in efficiency of regional economies

Voprosy regionalnoj ekonomiki ◽

10.21499/2078-4023-2017-32-3-26-38 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 26-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Y. Veselovsky

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

The State ◽

Regional Economies ◽

Foreign Experience

In article primary benefits of innovative territorial clusters, and also domestic and foreign experience of their creation and formation are described. Initiatives of the state of increase in efficiency of activities of innovative clusters, the main shortcomings of their operation are selected, measures which implementation, will allow to become innovative clusters drivers of economic development of regional economies are proposed.

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The use of the indicative approach to the analysis of threats to economic security of regions

Voprosy regionalnoj ekonomiki ◽

10.21499/2078-4023-2017-33-4-71-76 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 71-76

Author(s):

A. E. Suglobov ◽

В. Т. Tolebayeva ◽

M. Zh. Kukeyeva

Keyword(s):

Economic Security ◽

Regional Economies

The article considers the directions of ensuring economic security of the regions, indicators of its measurement, recommendations for the strengthening of the protection of regional economies.

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Electoral Systems and Ethnic Minority Representation

The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190258658.013.26 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 158-174

Author(s):

David Lublin ◽

Shaun Bowler

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Minority ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Political Power ◽

Electoral Systems ◽

Electoral System ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Democratic Process ◽

Minority Representation ◽

Ethnic Geography

Every democratic process short of unanimity produces opinion minorities. Political divisions along anchored demographic characteristics like language, religion, race, or ethnicity challenge pluralist models of governance by threatening to entrench the exclusion of minority groups from political power. Especially when attuned to ethnic geography, electoral engineering through manipulation of the electoral system and other rules governing the electoral process, such as boundary delimitation, reserved seats, ballot-access requirements, and ethnic party bans, can help promote either inclusion or exclusion of minorities. Ensuring long-term interethnic peace has proved more difficult. Scholars continue to grapple with how to ensure minority inclusion without freezing existing divisions.

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Public–Private Partnership Infrastructure Investment and Sustainable Economic Development: An Empirical Study Based on Efficiency Evaluation and Spatial Spillover in China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13158146 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 8146

Author(s):

Bingyao Chen

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Infrastructure Investment ◽

Economic Sustainability ◽

Regional Economies ◽

Input Output ◽

Private Partnership ◽

Spatial Spillover ◽

Sustainable Economic Development ◽

Output Efficiency ◽

Industrial Heterogeneity

Public–private partnership (PPP), an innovative mode of infrastructure investment, has been widely applied in China and has become an essential policy tool with which to promote sustainable economic development. In order to comprehensively evaluate the economic consequences, using 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2018 as samples, first, stochastic frontier analysis was performed to measure the input–output efficiency of infrastructure investment to evaluate the economic sustainability and efficiency of PPP compared to single government-led investment mode. Next, the overall economic growth effect of PPP was verified. Further, from the perspective of sustainable development of regional economies, the double-fixed effect spatial Durbin model was adopted to empirically test the spatial spillover effect of PPP and clarify its industrial heterogeneity. The results show the following. (1) The average input–output efficiency of infrastructure is 0.449, revealing a distribution law of decreasing from east to west and remarkable regional variation. However, a good trend of improvement emerged, reflecting the economic sustainability of infrastructure investment, and PPP has played a positive role in promoting it. (2) PPP has significant and positive economic growth and spatial spillover effects, which can promote regional economic integration, embodying its economic sustainability function. (3) The economic impact of PPP has significant industrial heterogeneity. Transportation PPP can bring greater economic benefits, confirming the vital position of transportation infrastructure in the sustainable development of regional economies. Energy and water PPPs have positive externalities. All of this provides powerful and reliable proof of the realization of sustainable economic development under the regional virtuous circle driven by infrastructure investment through PPP.

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Evolutionary economics: Crisis, transformation and metamorphosis

Human Systems Management ◽

10.3233/hsm-219003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Milan Zeleny

Keyword(s):

Growth Rate ◽

Productivity Growth ◽

Driving Force ◽

Evolutionary Economics ◽

Regional Economies ◽

Economic Evolution ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Advanced Economies ◽

First Time

Most world economies are undergoing fundamental transformations of economic sectors, shifting their employed workforce through the secular sequence of (1. Agriculture⟶2. Industry⟶3. Services⟶4. Government). The productivity growth rate is the driving force. Most advanced economies have reached the final stages of the sequence. Assorted recessions, crises and stagnations are simply cofluent, accompanying phenomena. Crises might be cyclical, but economic evolution is unidirectional. Traditional economics can hardly distinguish phenomena of crisis from those of the transformation. Because there is no “fifth sector”, some economies are entering the phase of metamorphosis, for the first time in history. Metamorphosis is manifested through deglobalization, relocalization and autonomization of local and regional economies. We are entering the Age of Entrepreneurship.

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