Industrial Change And Regional Economic Transformation
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| Author | : Akbar Noman |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 469 |
| Release | : 2015-09-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0231540779 |
The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters—a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region—since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this century were African. Yet only in Ethiopia and Rwanda was growth not based on resources and the rising price of oil. Deindustrialization has yet to be reversed, and progress toward creating a modern economy remains limited. This book explores the vital role that active government policies can play in transforming African economies. Such policies pertain not just to industry. They traverse all economic sectors, including finance, information technology, and agriculture. These packages of learning, industrial, and technology (LIT) policies aim to bring vigorous and lasting growth to the region. This collection features case studies of LIT policies in action in many parts of the world, examining their risks and rewards and what they mean for Sub-Saharan Africa.
| Author | : Lloyd Rodwin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2017-08-22 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351594109 |
Originally published in 1991. This book deals with industrial and regional changes in Western Europe and the effectiveness of policies designed to cope with them. It examines the regional experiences, including successes as well as problems, to illuminate the trends and policies; raises questions about the issues; and reports on the effects and further implications for not just Europe but Japan and many newly industrializing countries. Analysing the evolution and effectiveness of local, regional, national and European policies, this is of interest for industrial and development specialises as well as economists, planners, geographers and policy makers.
| Author | : Ivan Turok |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2018-10-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351387782 |
At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the development of cities and regions. It discusses the uncertainties associated with the stalling of hyper-globalization and asks whether this creates opportunities for resurgent regional economies driven by local capabilities, resource efficiencies and domestic production. Theory and evidence on socio-economic and environmental transitions underway in many regions are brought together. Implications of the shifting balance of global power towards emerging economies in the East are explored, along with the consequences of urbanization in the global South for politics and democracy. Dilemmas surrounding migration are also discussed, including whether incomers displace local workers and depress wages, or bring benefits in the form of know-how, new technology and investment. More integrative concepts of the region and theories of regional development are analysed, recognising the role of human capital, knowledge, innovation, finance, infrastructure and institutions. This was originally published as a special issue of Regional Studies.
| Author | : Lloyd Rodwin |
| Publisher | : Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2018-12-13 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781138102330 |
Reconstruction of the industrial structure and areas of attraction -- The contrast between two macro-regions -- Some final remarks -- 7 Regional perspectives on the deindustrialization of Sweden -- The issue of regional deindustrialization -- Structural change in the Swedish economy -- Twenty years of regional change in Sweden -- Changing policy perspectives in Sweden -- III Perspective Studies -- 8 Problems of regional transformation and deindustrialization in the European Community -- Some definitional issues -- Measuring deindustrialization -- Measures of regional deindustrialization in the European Community -- Regional transformation as a source of adjustment problems -- Some concluding remarks -- 9 1957 to 1992: moving toward a Europe of regions and regional policy -- Introduction -- Major features of the European Community budget -- Community regional policy: the first moves -- The political and statutory framework of industrial restructuring -- Community programmes for regional restructuring -- The 1988 reform -- The regional impact of economic and monetary union -- 10 Europe's regional-urban futures: conclusions, inferences and surmises -- Anticipated effects of 1992 -- Some specific spatial effects -- Europe and Japan: a comparison -- The Greater Europe of the 1990s -- IV Postscript -- Structural transformation in Japan: issues and prospects for regional development in the coming years -- Backdrop of global economic change -- Regional economic transformation in Japan -- Implications of Tokyo's phenomenal growth -- Challenges of balanced growth -- Options for regional development in the coming years -- Chapter appendices -- Chapter notes -- Index
| Author | : Robert J. Stimson |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2013-03-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3662049112 |
Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels. In planning for cities and regions, both large and small, economic development issues now tend to be integrated into strategic planning processes. For at least the last 50 years, scholars from various disciplines have theorised about the nature of regional economic development, developing a range of models seeking to explain the process of regional economic development, and why it is that regions vary so much in their economic structure and performance and how these aspects of a region can change dramatically over time. Regional scientists in particular have developed a comprehensive tool-kit of methodologies to measure and monitor regional economic characteristics such as industry sectors, employment, income, value of production, investment, and the like, using both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, and focusing on both static and dynamic analysis. The 'father of regional science', Walter lsard, was the first to put together a comprehensive volume on techniques of regional analysis (Isard 1960), and since then a huge literature has emerged, including the many titles in the series published by Springer in which this book is published.
| Author | : Marijn Molema |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2019-10-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0429818416 |
Regional Studies is inextricably intertwined with history. Cultural and institutional legacies inform choices between different policy options, meaning that the past plays a crucial role in how we think about regional economic development, planning and policy. Through a selection of accessible theoretical, methodological and empirical chapters, this book explores the connections between regional development and history. Drawing on the expertise of scholars in several disciplines, it links history to topics such as behavioural geography, interdependence, divergence and regional and urban policy. This innovative book will be of interest to researchers across regional studies, planning, economic geography and economic history.
| Author | : Andy Pike |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2006-11-22 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1134248547 |
Local and regional development is an increasingly global issue. For localities and regions, the challenge of enhancing prosperity, improving wellbeing and increasing living standards has become acute for localities and regions formerly considered discrete parts of the ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ worlds. Amid concern over the definitions and sustainability of ‘development’, a spectre has emerged of deepened unevenness and sharpened inequalities in the development prospects for particular social groups and territories. Local and Regional Development engages and addresses the key questions: what are the principles and values that shape definitions and strategies of local and regional development? What are the conceptual and theoretical frameworks capable of understanding and interpreting local and regional development? What are the main policy interventions and instruments? How do localities and regions attempt to effect development in practice? What kinds of local and regional development should we be pursuing? This book addresses the fundamental issues of ‘what kind of local and regional development and for whom?’, frameworks of understanding, and instruments and policies. It outlines what a holistic, progressive and sustainable local and regional development might constitute before reflecting on its limits and political renewal. With the growing international importance of local and regional development, this book is an essential student purchase, illustrated throughout with maps, figures and case studies from Asia, Europe, and Central and North America.
| Author | : Björn Alpermann |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2010-04-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1135149070 |
The cotton processing industry is a distinct sector of China’s rural economy which recently underwent a momentous transition from plan to market. China is the world’s largest producer as well as consumer of cotton, and cotton processing links the agricultural production of this important commodity to China’s booming textile industry. Alpermann examines the political economy of the cotton processing industry, analyzes the process of cotton policy making and discusses reform outcomes on a national scale and the central state’s response. He then goes on to examine the implementation of economic transformation and institutional change in two traditional cotton-growing regions, looking at how local governments and the former monopolist cope with the changes brought about by marketization. Studying the cotton industry provides a lens through which to observe the changes in the way the state governs the economy during China’s transition and helps to assess the diverging claims about the nature of the political economy in China. As such China's Cotton Industry is an essential read for anyone studying Chinese business, econmics or politics.
| Author | : Michael Storper |
| Publisher | : Guilford Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1997-10-31 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781572303157 |
This pioneering volume proposes a compelling new theory of how regions have sustained their economic viability in the era of multinational corporations. Unlike traditional approaches, which analyze economic systems in terms of their mechanics (inputs, outputs, prices, technology, etc.), this work views them as systems for coordinating human actions and relationships. Reconceptualizing the role of learning, technology, and local institutions in development, Storper illuminates the key role of regional economies as building blocks of the increasingly connected world. A thought-provoking and timely work, The Regional World carries resounding implications for educators, students, and policymakers in economic geography, economic sociology, and international business. It is an essential primary or supplementary text for graduate-level courses on economic, regional, or industrial development and policy and international business.
| Author | : Lloyd Rodwin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2017-09-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351594133 |
Originally published in 1989. This major book deals with deindustrialization and regional economic transformation in five regions of the USA: the industrial Midwest, the South, California, New England, and the New York metropolitan region. Four perspective studies then connect these diverse experiences to intra-metropolitan spatial adjustments, growth prospects for industry and services, and evolving regional theory and policy. An overview chapter sums up the main themes, common denominators and differences and some puzzles and unresolved issues. All concerned with the industrial and regional evolution of the USA – geographers, economists, planners, policy-makers, will find this authoritative survey useful.
