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...

We analyze the main determining features of the evolution of the urbanization rate and of the urban primacy rate in developing countries, which is a bone of contention in the literature. We show that urbanization rate and urban primacy present specific trajectories according to the different...

Since the pioneer work of Williamson, several authors have shown that urban concentration in a country tends to increase during the economic take-off and the industrialisation, and to decrease beyond a given per capita income of about 5000 $ (of 1985). This article provides an insight, using the...

Maurice CATIN et Christophe VAN HUFFEL Despite a dramatic growth since 1978, China shows an increasing dualism between its coastal provinces highly integrated in the world economy and its relatively autarkical hinterland provinces. This paper shows that government institutional choices have...

Theoretical and empirical works do not present clear results concerning the effect of international openness on the geographical concentration of activities in less developed countries. We reassess the main conclusions of the literature to differentiate an "endogeneous" openness linked in a long...

This paper aims to analyse, through the nature and the evolution of clusters, the specific features of the Chinese development model, in relation with FDI and the public accompanying policies that have been implemented. Three types of clusters can be distinguished according to a chronology that...

The establishment of multinational firms in the technological sector may have different effects on growth and on the location where domestic firms choose to set up in a developing country, depending on whether linkage effects or the effects of competition prevail. This theoretical model,...

KRUGMAN and LIVAS ELIZONDO (1996) had shown how, in some cases, policies of commercial liberalization -like those experienced by the countries that become members of the EU - could improve the distribution of the manufacturing production between central and peripherical regions in a country in...

Large numbers of agricultural labor moved from the countryside to cities after the economic reforms in China. Migration and remittances play an important role in transforming the structure of rural household income. This paper examines the impact of rural-to-urban migration on rural poverty and...