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Part of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development

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Development Strategies and Regional Income Disparities in China

This paper argues that the regional income gap of China is endogenously determined by its long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies can be broadly divided into two mutually exclusive groups: (i) the comparative advantage-defying...

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An Inquiry into Cities and Their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South Africa

South Africa is characterized by significant inequality in spatial economic activity. Whether future growth and development on a subnational level in South Africa will be such as to reduce this inequality may depend on the economic growth and...

Journal Article

Opposition Parties and the Urban Poor in African Democracies

Africa’s urban poor increasingly represent a key constituency for electoral mobilization. Opposition parties, which are pivotal for democratic consolidation, have nevertheless exhibited disparate success at obtaining votes from this constituency. To...

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The Urban Challenge

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Regional Development and Government Policy In China's Transitional Economy

This paper examines the causes and consequences of the increase in regional disparities in China during its economic transition towards a 'socialist market economy'. Part 1 seeks to explain why the 'Core' provinces in southeast China have...

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Regionalization in Southern Africa

This state of the art paper reviews literature published up to the end of 1994 on economic, security and environmental regionalization in southern Africa. In the field of economic regionalization a distinction is made between three main integration...

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Habitat II and the Urban Economy

The strategic conferences organized by the UN during the past 25 years have focused on assisting and mobilizing governments and other relevant actors of international life by enhancing collective thinking and action in those areas which may...

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Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China

China’s current fiscal system is largely decentralized while its governance structure is rather centralized with strong top-down mandates and a homogenous governance structure. Due to large differences in initial economic structures and revenue bases...

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Reconstruction from Breakdown in Northeastern India

The northeast region of India remains fraught with severe violence, poor growth and acute frustration among its youth. Success of policies to resolve the region’s crisis has proved less than encouraging. What could be the way out of the violence–poor...

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Evolving City Systems

This paper reviews the literature on the forces driving urbanization in developing countries. It presents a model outlining how globalization can lead to the evolution of an urban structure which may approximate Zipf’s law. Policy implications are...

Book Chapter

To Be or Not To Be?

Part of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South

Journal Article

Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China

Part of Journal Special Issue WIDER Symposium on Analyzing the Socioeconomic Consequences of Rising Inequality in China

Book

The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development

This book is dedicated to the implications of the New Regionalism for global security and development. The fourth volume in the five-volume New Regionalism Series, it features contributions from the UNU/WIDER project on New Regionalism. Earlier...

Book

The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development

This book is dedicated to the implications of the New Regionalism for global security and development. The fourth volume in the five-volume New Regionalism Series, it features contributions from the UNU/WIDER project on New Regionalism. Earlier...

Journal Article

The Political Economy of Malaysian Federalism

Part of Journal Special Issue Explaining Violent Conflict

Journal Article

An Inquiry into Cities and their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Spatial Issues in Africa

Working Paper

Agglomeration Index

A common challenge in analyzing urbanization is the data. The United Nations (UN) compiles information on urbanization (urban population and its share of total national population) that is reported by various countries but there is no standardized...

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The Political Economy of Malaysian Federalism

Conflicts within the Malaysian federation have been rooted in socio-economic disparities and the struggle for control of natural resource rents, which State Governments previously had exclusive control over, as originally provided for by the federal...

Working Paper

Regionalization in East Asia-Pacific?

This is a state-of-the-art report prepared within the UNU/WIDER project The New Regionalism and the International System - Implications for Development and Security, covering East and Southeast Asia. The report constitutes an initial inventory study...

Book Chapter

Evolving City Systems

Part of Book Urbanization and Development

Book Chapter

Agglomeration Index

Part of Book Urbanization and Development

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Regionalisms Compared

Part of Book Comparing Regionalisms

Book Chapter

The New Regionalism

Part of Book Globalism and the New Regionalism

Book Chapter

Political Regionalism

Part of Book Globalism and the New Regionalism

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Regionalization in Response to Polarizing Globalization

Part of Book Globalism and the New Regionalism

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National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South

This volume presents various national perspectives on the process of regionalization for a more concrete understanding of its dynamics. It is dedicated to country studies from the South and explores to what extent the New Regionalism can provide...

Book

National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South

This volume presents various national perspectives on the process of regionalization for a more concrete understanding of its dynamics. It is dedicated to country studies from the South and explores to what extent the New Regionalism can provide...