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This paper examines the trajectory of economic development in Botswana between the years 1820 and 1966, when it achieved independence. First, I review the historical trends in the country’s economic and social development indicators. I then proceed to analyze what factors have encouraged or...
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This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
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Development geography and mainstream economic theory have for many years lived separate lives. Especially so since the downfall of development economics, an academic subject which has repeatedly been pronounced dead by one of today’s leading US economists. The geographical dimension - the...
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This paper describes the methods used to construct an index to measure the maritime potential of nations. This prototype uses a limited number of variables to measure (a) the locational advantage of having a long coastline in comparison to the landmass (Maritime Potential Index MPI) , (b) the...
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important in the process of industrialization, the transition from agriculture to industry among unfavorable land endowment … were overtaken in the process of industrialization; (ii) lower level of land productivity in the past is associated with …
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This paper provides an integrated analysis of the role of the service sector in recent Indian economic development. It discusses the nature of services, their distinction from products, and their categorization. It provides an overview of India’s overall growth experience, and a detailed...
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This paper aims at describing the regional configuration of 1959 Brazil’s productive structure through the estimation of an Inter-State Input-Output system. The estimated matrix is the oldest of this kind for Brazil. It can, hence, be an important tool for the study of the regional productive...
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This study aims to explore the relationship between economic growth, urbanization, financial development and … relationship between urbanization and electricity consumption is also inverted U-shaped. This implies that urbanization increases … electricity consumption initially and after a threshold level of urbanization, electricity demand falls. The causality analysis …
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The main objective of this paper is to analyze the recent past trends and patterns of urbanization, urban economic … of urbanization is associated with higher economic growth, lower level of poverty and higher extent of inequality in … urban India. Finally, the study suggests that Indian government needs to speed up the urbanization rate as it contributes …
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Heterogeneous panel causality tests are employed to consider the relationship between urbanization change and economic … that relationship. Urbanization caused economic growth in high income countries, but non-causality could not be rejected …-income, predominately African countries where economic growth had a positive, causal effect on urbanization, but where urbanization, in turn …
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