2014 will be an important milestone for shaping the policy field of development cooperation in a post-2015 context. Two central events are taking place. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) will convene for its first High-Level Meeting in April 2014 in Mexico...

We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...

This paper argues that the role of international trade and the institutions that promote the raging process of economic globalization is more likely to be debilitating for developing countries that are not well positioned to benefit from it. It argues that because the globalization process has...

Leichenko, R. M. and Solecki, W. D. (2005) Exporting the American dream: the globalization of suburban consumption landscapes, Regional Studies 39 , 241-253. This paper examines how cultural, economic and political aspects of globalization interact with processes of urbanization in less...

This paper makes a case that discerning what globalization means for local economic development strategies, structures and policies becomes a formidable governance challenge today. The thesis of this paper rests on the assumption that Local Economic Development (LED) policies as an integral part...

This paper analyses the nexus between global competitiveness and the attainment of the Vision 20:2020 agenda of the Federal Government of Nigeria. In doing this, the paper reviews the key elements of Vision 20/2020, the pillars of global competitiveness and the ranking of Nigeria on global...

In the political economy of place, cities can be thought of as a global commodity marketed to the “creative class” and high-skilled immigrants, while privileged suburban spaces are protected by place stratification. The spatial assimilation literature shows that assimilated immigrants and...

The paper models the policy challenges facing globalising developing countries. Models from pure theory of international trade, the small open economy model, growth accounting, the Solow-Swan model, the Gravity Model, Models of Portfolion Diversification, Currency Crises Models. These models are...

This working paper: (i) provides an overview of global, regional and national income inequalities based on the latest distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Eurostat; (ii) discusses the negative implications of rising income inequality for development; (iii) calls for placing...

Almost everyone can agree that the original connection of intellectual property to trade was for purely economically instrumental purposes but few would have predicted its other consequences, particularly the reshaped relationship of intellectual property’s innovation mandate to the production...