Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2021.1921599
L. Cirolia, G. Robbins
ABSTRACT Municipal revenue is an important site of urban statecraft. Against the backdrop of the metropolitan consolidation of Cape Town’s urban governance in 2000, this paper traces two key revenue sources: national transfers to local government, with a focus on conditional grants; and the City’s own sources, including property tax and service charges. While the design of these instruments intends to be redistributive and support metropolitan autonomy, their deployment poses challenges and contradictions, particularly for the everyday operations of the urban state. Not only does the analysis demonstrate the underexplored role of revenue instruments and logics in urban statecraft, but also the importance of ‘placing’ debates about urban fiscal geographies in southern cities.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2021.1940227
Sören Scholvin
ABSTRACT Development corridors bring transport infrastructure together with regulatory reforms and other measures to produce regions that are functional in the sense that they can plug into global value chains. They promise regional development by ‘getting the territory right’. Yet, numerous studies show that the outcomes are mixed. Some corridors are marked by serious shortcomings. Contributing to our understanding of the dark side of corridors, this research note outlines how corridors may fail to meet economic goals, give rise to disarticulations, suffer from institutional deficiencies, and have environmental and social shortcomings. Instead of trying to get the territory right in a top-down manner, bottom-up approaches to development ought to receive more attention.
{"title":"Getting the territory wrong: the dark side of development corridors","authors":"Sören Scholvin","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2021.1940227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2021.1940227","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Development corridors bring transport infrastructure together with regulatory reforms and other measures to produce regions that are functional in the sense that they can plug into global value chains. They promise regional development by ‘getting the territory right’. Yet, numerous studies show that the outcomes are mixed. Some corridors are marked by serious shortcomings. Contributing to our understanding of the dark side of corridors, this research note outlines how corridors may fail to meet economic goals, give rise to disarticulations, suffer from institutional deficiencies, and have environmental and social shortcomings. Instead of trying to get the territory right in a top-down manner, bottom-up approaches to development ought to receive more attention.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48961306","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 : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2021.1930563
Animesh Naskar
ABSTRACT This investigation explores the micro-heterogeneity of industrial clustering of registered Indian manufacturing firms and examines the roles of Marshallian agglomeration and localization economies and location-specific policy incentives. The empirical results suggest that of localization economies, only inter-industry buyer–supplier relationships and labour market pooling play significant roles in industrial clustering. Location-specific incentives such as the designation of special economic zones have a positive effect on the co-agglomeration of industries, whereas location-specific tax incentives do not have such an effect, except in the cases of new entrants.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-22DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2021.1967175
B. Dye, Seth Schindler, D. Rwehumbiza
ABSTRACT States have become active participants in markets in the past decade, precipitating renewed scholarly interest in state capitalism. We contribute to the conceptualization of contemporary state capitalism by bridging it with scholarship on infrastructure-led development and analysing its political rationality. We begin by introducing mid-20th-century high modernism, which coupled spatial planning and social engineering for the purpose of transforming territory and ‘improving’ populations. Through a comparative historical analysis of development regimes in Tanzania, we demonstrate that contemporary state capitalism tends to decouple these objectives; while there is an emphasis on the transformation of territory, social engineering is virtually absent. Instead, individuals are meant to recognize economic opportunity afforded by infrastructure projects and self-actualize accordingly. Our analysis shows that the political rationality of contemporary state capitalism in Tanzania combines high-modernist spatial planning with orthodox neoliberal assumptions surrounding the inherent entrepreneurialism of individuals.
{"title":"The political rationality of state capitalism in Tanzania: Territorial transformation and the entrepreneurial individual","authors":"B. Dye, Seth Schindler, D. Rwehumbiza","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2021.1967175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2021.1967175","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT States have become active participants in markets in the past decade, precipitating renewed scholarly interest in state capitalism. We contribute to the conceptualization of contemporary state capitalism by bridging it with scholarship on infrastructure-led development and analysing its political rationality. We begin by introducing mid-20th-century high modernism, which coupled spatial planning and social engineering for the purpose of transforming territory and ‘improving’ populations. Through a comparative historical analysis of development regimes in Tanzania, we demonstrate that contemporary state capitalism tends to decouple these objectives; while there is an emphasis on the transformation of territory, social engineering is virtually absent. Instead, individuals are meant to recognize economic opportunity afforded by infrastructure projects and self-actualize accordingly. Our analysis shows that the political rationality of contemporary state capitalism in Tanzania combines high-modernist spatial planning with orthodox neoliberal assumptions surrounding the inherent entrepreneurialism of individuals.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45773808","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 : 2021-09-20DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2021.1961592
D. Paudel
ABSTRACT In Nepal, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) contributed to the articulation of a post-2015 conjuncture involving a new constitution, earthquake reconstruction, an Indian blockade and disenchantment with Western non-governmental organization developmentalism. This conjuncture permitted the emergence of new domestic possibilities, regional configurations of power, Himalayan geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics, and developmental trajectories involving an infrastructural turn. Considered a frontier zone since the Sugauli Treaty, Nepal has mobilized its own historical, geographical and political conditions, and articulated the BRI as a historical opportunity to liberate itself from India’s market monopoly and domestic political and economic influence by generating a new national discourse in favour of a sovereign, autonomous and self-reliant development path that is already shaping national policymaking, state restructuring, political mobilizations, regional negotiations and Nepal Himalaya landscapes. As such it challenges the conventional opposition between globalized capitalist and imperialist exploitation and national sovereignty.
{"title":"Himalayan BRI: an infrastructural conjuncture and shifting development in Nepal","authors":"D. Paudel","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2021.1961592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2021.1961592","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Nepal, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) contributed to the articulation of a post-2015 conjuncture involving a new constitution, earthquake reconstruction, an Indian blockade and disenchantment with Western non-governmental organization developmentalism. This conjuncture permitted the emergence of new domestic possibilities, regional configurations of power, Himalayan geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics, and developmental trajectories involving an infrastructural turn. Considered a frontier zone since the Sugauli Treaty, Nepal has mobilized its own historical, geographical and political conditions, and articulated the BRI as a historical opportunity to liberate itself from India’s market monopoly and domestic political and economic influence by generating a new national discourse in favour of a sovereign, autonomous and self-reliant development path that is already shaping national policymaking, state restructuring, political mobilizations, regional negotiations and Nepal Himalaya landscapes. As such it challenges the conventional opposition between globalized capitalist and imperialist exploitation and national sovereignty.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49283986","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 : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2021.1931381
Mohammad Hajian Hossein Abadi, Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir
ABSTRACT In Iran, as in other developing countries, the existence of shrinking cities has been observed. In the case of 13 medium-sized cities in Khuzestan province in 1977–2011, demographic growth trends differ widely, but there was no significant overall relationship between urban population growth and employment, activity development or indeed with indicators of social environmental and ecological development in these cities. Demographic growth is principally a result of natural increase and intra-regional rural–urban migration in a geopolitically important but relatively disadvantaged border province that suffers from net outmigration and the devastating effects of the Iran–Iraq War on the distribution of the population, infrastructure and important economic centres, and ports such as Abadan.
{"title":"Distinct trajectories of city growth, city shrinkage and development in the Iranian province of Khuzestan","authors":"Mohammad Hajian Hossein Abadi, Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2021.1931381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2021.1931381","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Iran, as in other developing countries, the existence of shrinking cities has been observed. In the case of 13 medium-sized cities in Khuzestan province in 1977–2011, demographic growth trends differ widely, but there was no significant overall relationship between urban population growth and employment, activity development or indeed with indicators of social environmental and ecological development in these cities. Demographic growth is principally a result of natural increase and intra-regional rural–urban migration in a geopolitically important but relatively disadvantaged border province that suffers from net outmigration and the devastating effects of the Iran–Iraq War on the distribution of the population, infrastructure and important economic centres, and ports such as Abadan.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46230572","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 : 2021-08-31DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2021.1943472
D. Sanfelici, Maira Magnani
ABSTRACT Existing research has shown that pension funds have been adopting financialized real estate governance models and investment practices more concerned with the short-term risk–return performance of the portfolio. This study of the property portfolios of Brazil’s largest pension funds shows that financialization is a powerful force but does not fully explain pension fund commercial real estate investment and management practices which are strongly predicated upon three guiding principles: (1) an awareness of the constraints posed by pension liabilities; (2) a focus on asset-specific competences to increase returns; and (3) a prioritization of in-house investment management. These practices are, however, challenged by a recent Monetary Board decision to ban direct property investment by pension funds and place their resources at the disposal of the financial industry.
{"title":"Pension fund investment in commercial real estate: a qualitative analysis of decision-making and investment practices in Brazil","authors":"D. Sanfelici, Maira Magnani","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2021.1943472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2021.1943472","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Existing research has shown that pension funds have been adopting financialized real estate governance models and investment practices more concerned with the short-term risk–return performance of the portfolio. This study of the property portfolios of Brazil’s largest pension funds shows that financialization is a powerful force but does not fully explain pension fund commercial real estate investment and management practices which are strongly predicated upon three guiding principles: (1) an awareness of the constraints posed by pension liabilities; (2) a focus on asset-specific competences to increase returns; and (3) a prioritization of in-house investment management. These practices are, however, challenged by a recent Monetary Board decision to ban direct property investment by pension funds and place their resources at the disposal of the financial industry.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48435169","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 : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2021.1910527
Beatriz Bustos-Gallardo, Felipe Irarrázaval
ABSTRACT In the last two decades, the 2008 Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) virus and the 2016 algal blooms crises have placed the Chilean salmon industry at risk and tested the capacity of its governance mechanisms to solve environmental and economic contradictions and ensure the industry’s continuity and its sustainability. Although in the 2008 crisis the state redefined mechanisms of property, control and access to natural resources to strengthen the resilience of the salmon industry, the lessons learned by the system and the community between one crisis and the next were not enough to avoid a new crisis. Chile’s existing governance mechanisms are reactive and not proactive and, therefore, their capacity to lead the industry towards long-term sustainable practices is flawed.
{"title":"From crisis to stability and back again: the fragility of environmental governance in the Chilean salmon industry","authors":"Beatriz Bustos-Gallardo, Felipe Irarrázaval","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2021.1910527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2021.1910527","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the last two decades, the 2008 Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) virus and the 2016 algal blooms crises have placed the Chilean salmon industry at risk and tested the capacity of its governance mechanisms to solve environmental and economic contradictions and ensure the industry’s continuity and its sustainability. Although in the 2008 crisis the state redefined mechanisms of property, control and access to natural resources to strengthen the resilience of the salmon industry, the lessons learned by the system and the community between one crisis and the next were not enough to avoid a new crisis. Chile’s existing governance mechanisms are reactive and not proactive and, therefore, their capacity to lead the industry towards long-term sustainable practices is flawed.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44223605","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 : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2020.1830708
R. Munck
ABSTRACT Karl Polanyi provides a rich repertoire of concepts to build a critical understanding of the world of globalization and alternatives to the status quo. In reviewing two recent collections around the work of Polanyi, we show some of the concepts that might be developed in terms of ‘using Polanyi’. This would include his inspired double-movement concept and the way he dealt with non-capitalist societies. Polanyi is as relevant for the so-called developing societies as he is for the advanced industrial societies where he has garnered most attention.
{"title":"On Polanyi","authors":"R. Munck","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1830708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1830708","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Karl Polanyi provides a rich repertoire of concepts to build a critical understanding of the world of globalization and alternatives to the status quo. In reviewing two recent collections around the work of Polanyi, we show some of the concepts that might be developed in terms of ‘using Polanyi’. This would include his inspired double-movement concept and the way he dealt with non-capitalist societies. Polanyi is as relevant for the so-called developing societies as he is for the advanced industrial societies where he has garnered most attention.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1830708","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48414094","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 : 2021-03-19DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2021.1878917
W. Clark, Dongxu Wu, Daichun Yi
ABSTRACT In four decades, China has transitioned from a controlled housing economy to one in which choices (and constraints) are more central drivers of residential change, although government roles in inner area clearance and redevelopment also play a powerful role in residential change. In this paper, data from the China Household Finance Study – Beijing Survey are used to show that while age, education, marital status and tenure have become important variables in the decision to move, residential mobility has Chinese characteristics. Additionally, while choice and opportunity now play important roles in when people move and where, many in poor-quality housing have low likelihoods of moving. There is a growing bifurcated outcome where those with resources move into commodity housing, while others are relegated to poor-quality housing built before the housing market reforms. The process may increase inequality in Beijing.
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