Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2225092
M. Dunford, Weidong Liu
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2216258
M. Sparke, Edwina Malmberg, Ted Malpass
ABSTRACT Advances in conjunctural analysis and insights into global production networks (GPNs) are used to examine the ways policymakers develop bio-pharma development strategies to manage the trade-offs between economic value capture and securing value for health. Four strategic state roles are identified – provision, protection, procurement and production – all shown to be recombined in conjuncture-contingent ways. Case studies of California’s Bay Area, Puerto Rico’s Bio-Island, China’s Greater Bay Area, Singapore’s Biopolis and South Africa’s mRNA Hub in Cape Town illustrate how each regional conjuncture leads to recombinations of the roles in ways that reflect the connected but also competing and contested strategies for securing economic value vis-à-vis health value. The resulting variegation of development makes manifest policy struggles that continue to complicate the meanings of strategic coupling and value in hubs of bio-pharma GPNs.
{"title":"Bio-pharma hub development in global production networks: contrasting state policies and conjunctural value strategies","authors":"M. Sparke, Edwina Malmberg, Ted Malpass","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2023.2216258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2023.2216258","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Advances in conjunctural analysis and insights into global production networks (GPNs) are used to examine the ways policymakers develop bio-pharma development strategies to manage the trade-offs between economic value capture and securing value for health. Four strategic state roles are identified – provision, protection, procurement and production – all shown to be recombined in conjuncture-contingent ways. Case studies of California’s Bay Area, Puerto Rico’s Bio-Island, China’s Greater Bay Area, Singapore’s Biopolis and South Africa’s mRNA Hub in Cape Town illustrate how each regional conjuncture leads to recombinations of the roles in ways that reflect the connected but also competing and contested strategies for securing economic value vis-à-vis health value. The resulting variegation of development makes manifest policy struggles that continue to complicate the meanings of strategic coupling and value in hubs of bio-pharma GPNs.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41866487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2197033
H. Duran, Zeynep Elburz, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp
{"title":"Region-specific turning points in territorial economic resilience: a business cycle approach to Turkey","authors":"H. Duran, Zeynep Elburz, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2023.2197033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2023.2197033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44809831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2199837
Sam Ock Park, Homin Yang, Jong-sung You
ABSTRACT This study analysed the dimensions and patterns of spatial wage income inequality in Seoul from 2006 to 2018. A Theil decomposition was applied to National Health Insurance Service administrative big data of all Seoul residents. Three distinct dimensions of spatial wage inequality (‘regional wage income differences’, ‘within-regions income inequality’ and ‘between-regions income inequality’) were confirmed using factor analysis. A subsequent cluster analysis identified four major district patterns of wage inequality evolutions, including a pattern of triple ‘highs’ and another of triple ‘lows’ of average wage income, within-low-level administrative areas (dongs) inequality and between-dongs inequality. These dimensions and dynamic patterns of spatial income inequality in Seoul were interlinked and they co-evolved with the development of the city and community development policies.
{"title":"Dimensions and dynamics of spatial wage inequality in Seoul, 2006 to 2018","authors":"Sam Ock Park, Homin Yang, Jong-sung You","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2023.2199837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2023.2199837","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study analysed the dimensions and patterns of spatial wage income inequality in Seoul from 2006 to 2018. A Theil decomposition was applied to National Health Insurance Service administrative big data of all Seoul residents. Three distinct dimensions of spatial wage inequality (‘regional wage income differences’, ‘within-regions income inequality’ and ‘between-regions income inequality’) were confirmed using factor analysis. A subsequent cluster analysis identified four major district patterns of wage inequality evolutions, including a pattern of triple ‘highs’ and another of triple ‘lows’ of average wage income, within-low-level administrative areas (dongs) inequality and between-dongs inequality. These dimensions and dynamic patterns of spatial income inequality in Seoul were interlinked and they co-evolved with the development of the city and community development policies.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44816591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-24eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2200546
Imogen Taotao Liu
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been theorised as a spatial fix to China's overaccumulation problem, and as such, an implicitly productivist endeavour. This article opens up conceptual space to consider how historically and geographically mediated forms of financialisation have tempered the unfolding of the BRI in peripheral economies. Drawing on the Serbian post-socialist transition context, financialisation has been characterised by underinvestment and a persistent dependency on foreign, market-based capital inflows which have (1) precipitated state transformations to mobilise Chinese financing for BRI projects, strengthening the role of the state in industrial rejuvenation; and (2) created an institutional palimpsest conducive to non-productive forms of surplus value appropriation that demonstrates the hybridity of accumulation imperatives underlying the BRI.
{"title":"Beyond the spatial fix: towards a finance-sensitive reading of the Belt and Road in Serbia.","authors":"Imogen Taotao Liu","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2023.2200546","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23792949.2023.2200546","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been theorised as a spatial fix to China's overaccumulation problem, and as such, an implicitly productivist endeavour. This article opens up conceptual space to consider how historically and geographically mediated forms of financialisation have tempered the unfolding of the BRI in peripheral economies. Drawing on the Serbian post-socialist transition context, financialisation has been characterised by underinvestment and a persistent dependency on foreign, market-based capital inflows which have (1) precipitated state transformations to mobilise Chinese financing for BRI projects, strengthening the role of the state in industrial rejuvenation; and (2) created an institutional palimpsest conducive to non-productive forms of surplus value appropriation that demonstrates the hybridity of accumulation imperatives underlying the BRI.</p>","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11363862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43372594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2199070
Waquar Ahmed
ABSTRACT This article engages with Ronaldo Munck’s arguments as to what is ‘Marxist development’ and presents the author’s own views. ‘Marxist development’ needs to be understood in Marx’s terms. First, this must be done by centring Marx’s methodology – dialectical materialism. Second, while Lenin, Luxemburg, the dependistas have helped us understand Marx better and the criticisms of post-developmentalists and indigenous environmentalists have made Marxism nuanced, yet neither Lenin, nor Luxemburg nor any response to criticism is the best representation of Marx. Marxist development can be properly understood in the light of Marx’s vision of emancipation and self-realisation. While Marx accepted that domination of nature was needed for human emancipation, his politics of self-realisation rests on recapturing an alienated relationship with fellow human beings and re-establishing creative and sensuous experiences with nature which capitalist industries had rendered distant and opaque. Additionally, the efficacy of Marxist development in the context of climate change and our contemporary economic crisis are examined, and it is argued that there is tremendous productive potential in following Marx’s vision of development as we confront a very uncertain environmental and economic future.
{"title":"Understanding ‘Marxist development’ in Marx’s terms in a world of climate change","authors":"Waquar Ahmed","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2023.2199070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2023.2199070","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article engages with Ronaldo Munck’s arguments as to what is ‘Marxist development’ and presents the author’s own views. ‘Marxist development’ needs to be understood in Marx’s terms. First, this must be done by centring Marx’s methodology – dialectical materialism. Second, while Lenin, Luxemburg, the dependistas have helped us understand Marx better and the criticisms of post-developmentalists and indigenous environmentalists have made Marxism nuanced, yet neither Lenin, nor Luxemburg nor any response to criticism is the best representation of Marx. Marxist development can be properly understood in the light of Marx’s vision of emancipation and self-realisation. While Marx accepted that domination of nature was needed for human emancipation, his politics of self-realisation rests on recapturing an alienated relationship with fellow human beings and re-establishing creative and sensuous experiences with nature which capitalist industries had rendered distant and opaque. Additionally, the efficacy of Marxist development in the context of climate change and our contemporary economic crisis are examined, and it is argued that there is tremendous productive potential in following Marx’s vision of development as we confront a very uncertain environmental and economic future.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41367821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2193246
Md Reza Habib, Arnab Roy Chowdhury
ABSTRACT More than 1 million Rohingya have fled Myanmar to live in Bangladesh, mostly in Cox’s Bazar district. The government of Bangladesh has been praised worldwide for sheltering them, but this enormous influx has strained its limited resources. As the host communities struggle with the Rohingya for control over, and access to, the scarce natural resources on which they depend for their livelihood – land, water, agriculture and forests – tension and conflict arises. The host community members perceive that the government and aid agencies prioritise the Rohingya over them in allocating resources, exacerbating their resentment. Both the locals and the Rohingya are marginalised, and therefore there is a need to focus on refugee–host community resource-based conflicts and related issues before designing any policy catering to the refugees.
{"title":"The Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: conflict with the host community over natural resources in Cox’s Bazar district","authors":"Md Reza Habib, Arnab Roy Chowdhury","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2023.2193246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2023.2193246","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT More than 1 million Rohingya have fled Myanmar to live in Bangladesh, mostly in Cox’s Bazar district. The government of Bangladesh has been praised worldwide for sheltering them, but this enormous influx has strained its limited resources. As the host communities struggle with the Rohingya for control over, and access to, the scarce natural resources on which they depend for their livelihood – land, water, agriculture and forests – tension and conflict arises. The host community members perceive that the government and aid agencies prioritise the Rohingya over them in allocating resources, exacerbating their resentment. Both the locals and the Rohingya are marginalised, and therefore there is a need to focus on refugee–host community resource-based conflicts and related issues before designing any policy catering to the refugees.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41969153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2174888
A. Safina, Leonardo Ramondetti, Francesca Governa
{"title":"Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China: the local complexities of a global project","authors":"A. Safina, Leonardo Ramondetti, Francesca Governa","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2023.2174888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2023.2174888","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47621123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2023.2174887
S. Potts
ABSTRACT While countries in the Global North have staved off the worst economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through massive stimulus spending, this option has been unavailable to many low- and middle-income countries, largely because high debt burdens have constrained fiscal spending. Nevertheless, almost no debt relief has materialized. The ad hoc approach to sovereign debt governance that emerged out of the debt crises of the 1980s helps explain why. It established an absolute commitment to upholding the right of private creditors to choose whether to participate in debt restructurings that has helped obstruct all significant sovereign debt governance reforms, preventing meaningful debt relief even in the context of the worst humanitarian crisis since the Great Depression.
{"title":"Debt in the time of COVID-19: creditor choice and the failures of sovereign debt governance","authors":"S. Potts","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2023.2174887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2023.2174887","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While countries in the Global North have staved off the worst economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through massive stimulus spending, this option has been unavailable to many low- and middle-income countries, largely because high debt burdens have constrained fiscal spending. Nevertheless, almost no debt relief has materialized. The ad hoc approach to sovereign debt governance that emerged out of the debt crises of the 1980s helps explain why. It established an absolute commitment to upholding the right of private creditors to choose whether to participate in debt restructurings that has helped obstruct all significant sovereign debt governance reforms, preventing meaningful debt relief even in the context of the worst humanitarian crisis since the Great Depression.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49516714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2022.2161922
Lalitha Kamath
ABSTRACT Diana Mitlin assesses the contributions of reform coalitions for more inclusive and equitable urban outcomes. This commentary examines three aspects of Mitlin’s arguments. First, it elaborates on the nature of knowledge that coalitions catalyse, suggesting that this could contribute to building a theory of practice on coalitions and city-making. Second, it examines the nature of the transformations coalitions seek to achieve emphasizing the generation of a transformative politics that seeks to democratize governance systems rather than one focused solely on material outcomes. Third, it interrogates the structural limits of what coalitions can achieve in the contemporary moment. The commentary draws from the author’s own experience of Indian cities.
{"title":"Coalitions and urban transformation: contributions and limits","authors":"Lalitha Kamath","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2161922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2161922","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Diana Mitlin assesses the contributions of reform coalitions for more inclusive and equitable urban outcomes. This commentary examines three aspects of Mitlin’s arguments. First, it elaborates on the nature of knowledge that coalitions catalyse, suggesting that this could contribute to building a theory of practice on coalitions and city-making. Second, it examines the nature of the transformations coalitions seek to achieve emphasizing the generation of a transformative politics that seeks to democratize governance systems rather than one focused solely on material outcomes. Third, it interrogates the structural limits of what coalitions can achieve in the contemporary moment. The commentary draws from the author’s own experience of Indian cities.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46290832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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