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Productivity-enhancing manufacturing clusters: Evidence from Vietnam

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - 2014

In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data … and distinguishing between urbanization and localization economies, we find strong evidence for productivity spillovers … from clustering. The effects of these spillovers are found to be particularly large for foreign-owned firms. Our results …

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Job accessibility and spatial equity: A city of Cape Town case study

van der Merwe, Jacomien; de Jong, Tom - 2023

Addressing unemployment and income inequalities in transport and land-use policies is important, particularly in South Africa, which is currently experiencing one of the highest unemployment rates and income inequality in the world. This research investigates the horizontal (geographical...

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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities

Li, Jun - 2013

Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...

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Poverty and inequality in Asia: 1965-2014

Wan, Guanghua; Wang, Chen - 2018

This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and individual economies. Efforts are made to explain these trends and explore the interrelationship between growth, poverty, and inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant...

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Irregular urbanization as a catalyst for radical social mobilization: The case of the housing movements of São Paulo

Earle, Lucy - 2011

This study focuses on the city of São Paulo, Brazil and examines the ways in which irregular and illegal growth have influenced the collective action of social movements of the urban poor. The study describes how São Paulo grew as a socially segregated city during the twentieth century due to...

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Clustering, competition, and spillover effects: Evidence from Cambodia

Chhair, Sokty; Newman, Carol - 2014

spillovers for informal firms and firms in the manufacturing sector but they are not of a large enough magnitude to outweigh the …

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The expansion of regional supermarket chains / canging models of retailing and the implications for local supplier capabilities in South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2015

Over the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets. Several factors have been attributed to this growth, including increasing urbanization, increased per capita income, the rise of the middle class, economies of scale and...

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The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers: A comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2016

Since the early 2000s, there has been rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets in southern Africa. This paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion of supermarkets and the impact this has had on...

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The expansion of regional supermarket chains: Implications on suppliers in Botswana and South Africa

Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2017

This paper explores the effect of the spread of supermarkets on the participation of suppliers in supermarket value chains in Botswana and South Africa. Using secondary data and in-depth interviews with key players in the value chain, the paper evaluates the buyer power of supermarkets evidenced...

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Winners and losers in industrial policy 2.0

Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Marshalian, Michelle - 2020

Large-scale business subsidies tied to national industrial development promotion programmes are notoriously difficult to study and are often inseparable from the political economy of large government programmes. We use the Tunisian national firm registry panel database, data on treated firms,...

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