Mingxin Xiong, Travis A. Whetsell, J. Zhao, Shaoming Cheng
{"title":"Centrally administered state-owned enterprises’ engagement in China’s public–private partnerships: a social network analysis","authors":"Mingxin Xiong, Travis A. Whetsell, J. Zhao, Shaoming Cheng","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1851608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1851608","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A salient characteristic of China’s public–pgrivate partnerships (PPPs) is the deep involvement of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those administered by the central/national government (CSOEs). In this research social network analysis (SNA) was used to examine the role of different actors in transport and environmental protection PPPs in China in the period 2012–17. The results largely confirm the resource-based view and resource-dependency theory, showing that while CSOEs are dominant in both sectors, their dominance and control is greatest in transport sector projects that are more dependent on their accumulated experience, expertise, human capital assets and managemgent skills, that their dominance has increased over time, and that it is aligned with the provincial distribution of Chinese CSOEs.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"6 1","pages":"296 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1851608","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44603774","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}
{"title":"Aligning regional priorities with global and national goals: constraints on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6 in rural Bihar, India","authors":"Aviram Sharma","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1829495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1829495","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To achieve United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 and for domestic reasons, the central government of India and several state governments are promoting aligned policies for universal access to sustainable and improved sanitation facilities. As most sanitation-related cross-sectional studies in India are national, this research examines the case of rural Bihar and identifies critical issues standing in the way of achievement of regional, national and international goals. The study reports four major constraints, which include the non-alignment of government and beneficiary perspectives, the absence of feedback loops, landlessness among marginalized communities, and inadequate engagement with environmental constraints in sanitation policies.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"6 1","pages":"363 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1829495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48287790","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}
{"title":"Geography of government support in China: a case study of college students","authors":"Tu Lan, Danqing Xiao, Hangjun Zhou","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1824580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1824580","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Scholars have debated why people support the Chinese government, but few have studied the spatial pattern of such support. In this article, drawing on a nationwide survey of college students in 2017 (N = 21,674), cumulative link mixed models are used to study the factors accounting for government support in China at individual, prefectural and provincial levels. The results show that competing economic–nationalist, institutional and cultural theories of government support in China all contain elements of truth. However, students in this sample support different levels of the government for different reasons, and these factors vary across places and by geographical scale. In general, economic performance mainly explains support for local government and political and ideological considerations mainly explain support for central government.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"6 1","pages":"143 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1824580","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45683879","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}
{"title":"A magic formula for economic development? Global market integration and spatial polarization in extractive industries","authors":"Sören Scholvin, Moritz Breul, J. R. Diez","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1823237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1823237","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The World Bank, World Trade Organization and others promote integration into global markets as a certain path towards economic development. Some researchers share this optimism, arguing that development is the record of how one thing leads to another, once peripheral locations have plugged into global networks. Comparing resource peripheries in South America, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa with regard to the upstream oil and gas sector, we call for a more nuanced assessment. Against the backdrop of 38 narrative, open-ended interviews, we show that there is spatial polarization between ‘gateways’ and peripheral sites in Southeast Asia. Argentinean and Ghanaian case studies reveal that local firms usually provide generic services, with little prospects of venturing into higher value-adding activities. We conclude that at least the oil and gas sector is not suitable for fulfilling very optimistic expectations on development.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"6 1","pages":"337 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1823237","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43591849","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}
{"title":"Inter-temporal differences in regional development","authors":"Poornima Dore, K. Narayanan","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1741413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1741413","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A comparison of major aspects of economic structure and access to resources (value added, consumption, diversity, sectoral shares, degree of urbanization, population with high-end skills and access to financial resources) for Indian regions (all states and union territories across the country with larger states divided into smaller and more comparable subregional units of NSS regions) between 2004–05 and 2011–12 identifies the factors that differentiate regions and shows that differences in these factors have increased over time. A step-wise discriminant analysis indicates that regional output and consumption were the key distinguishing factors, along with the sectoral composition of the regional economy. Clear evidence was found of a move towards greater diversity in the local economy, the emergence of construction and other service sectors with significant shares, and increased but more unequal access to finance and skills.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"5 1","pages":"376 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1741413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48228499","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}
{"title":"Banking ‘development’: the geopolitical–economy of infrastructure financing","authors":"Dimitar Anguelov","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1799717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1799717","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the post-2008 global economy, infrastructure development and financing have risen to the top of the development agenda, emerging as a contested field for global investments involving seemingly divergent interests, objectives, rationalities and practices. Whereas multilateral development banks such as the World Bank advocate the market-based public–private partnership aimed at attracting private finance and deepening marketized governance, China is forging a state-capitalist alternative through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). These models are far from mutually exclusive. Through a conjunctural approach, the paper examines the broader trade and financial interdependencies in which these models are entangled, and the geopolitical–economic objectives enframing the emergent infrastructure regime. These are explored vis-à-vis Indonesian infrastructure projects, framed by competition between China and Japan.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"6 1","pages":"271 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1799717","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44150689","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}
{"title":"Power, institutions and rents in two South African cities","authors":"C. Olver","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1793680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1793680","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Through case studies of two South African metropolitan municipalities, Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay, the paper explores the way in which the economic advantages at the disposal of local government, referred to as rents, are distributed according to the power relations in cities. The city governance regimes are distinguished in the way that power is structured, the balance between formal and informal institutions, the nature of the rents allocated, and their developmental and spatial outcomes. Cape Town’s growth-oriented model, founded on intimate relationships between developers and the political elite, exercised centralized control over land rights, which were allocated to entrenched property interests. The weaker clientelist regime in Nelson Mandela Bay relied on a diminishing pool of procurement rents to sustain a decentralized patronage-based system. The paper uses a political settlements framework to understand how the configuration of power in each city is sustained by a particular distribution of rents, mobilized through informal institutions, which in turn impact the structuring of the bureaucracy. The spatial and developmental impacts of the case studies indicate that despite the better development outcomes of Cape Town, neither regime specifically advantages the urban poor. The paper concludes by suggesting ways in which political settlements theory can better account for bureaucratic autonomy and impacts on the space economy.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"6 1","pages":"250 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1793680","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49467162","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}
{"title":"Impact of proximity on knowledge network formation: the case of the Korean steel industry","authors":"Sohyun Park, Yangmi Koo","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1797518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1797518","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Empirical research shows that the relationship between proximity and knowledge cooperation assumes a linear or an inverted ‘U’ shape. This study of knowledge networks in the South Korean steel industry shows that the relationship may assume other forms. Cognitive, organizational and geographical proximity all play crucial roles in explaining the knowledge network. In the case of cognitive and geographical proximity, the relationship is linear, while in the case of organizational proximity, the relationship is wave-like, reflecting the distinctive characteristics of the country’s steel industry, which is hierarchically led by several large conglomerates.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"6 1","pages":"181 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1797518","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44665504","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}
{"title":"Everyday politics and sustainable urban development in the Global South","authors":"Jeffrey W. Paller","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1799716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1799716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper introduces a framework of sustainable urban development that considers the everyday politics of cities and their neighbourhoods. First, it considers the challenges facing cities in the Global South, and calls for renewed attention to the daily political struggles of urban residents. Second, it reviews the scholarship on the politics of urban governance and incorporates the politics of belonging and how citizens make claims to urban space into logics of sustainable governance. Third, it presents a framework of sustainable urban development based on thinking about cities and their neighbourhoods as urban commons. Fourth, it illustrates the theory with examples from the Ghanaian cities of Accra and Ashaiman. Fifth, it concludes by discussing how the framework generalizes to cities in Asia and Latin America, and offers possible policy interventions that incorporate the underlying political conditions that contribute to sustainability.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"6 1","pages":"319 - 336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1799716","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45338965","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}
{"title":"Mobile phones, informal markets and young urban entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Stanley Tsarwe, Admire Mare","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2020.1790021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1790021","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study of the uses of mobile phones by Zimbabwean youths engaged in unregulated informal trading in Central Harare shows that mobiles create socio-culturally embedded virtual and non-virtual ‘markets’. The study describes the novel and creative appropriations of mobile phones as informal traders navigate small-scale business opportunities. The theory of social networks and collective action was used to shed a light on how mobile phones help informal traders to create functional networks and virtual infrastructures through which reciprocal and mutual relations are established without the need for face-to-face contacts. The study demonstrates that these mobile virtual infrastructures not only create closely knit communities resembling traditional African ‘collective cultures’ but also help informal traders to access micro-credit, market intelligence among peers and mobile payments integrated with traditional banking platforms.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"6 1","pages":"347 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23792949.2020.1790021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43925210","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}