{"title":"The urban system of Russia from 1991–2020: gradual development instead of radical transformation","authors":"E. Kolomak","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2021.2002168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2021.2002168","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An analysis of the evolution of the urban system of the Russian Federation in the period from 1991 to 2020 reveals an increase in heterogeneity of city development due to the growth of large cities and a decrease in the population of small cities, alongside a spatial shift in an east–west direction, although these changes are far less marked and slower than originally anticipated at the start of the transition from a planned to a market economy. Market potential, specialization, infrastructure, the administrative status of the city and geographical location all play a role, but market potential and its individual components have ambiguous effects because negative competitive aspects of interregional relations outweigh positive cooperative aspects and positive effects work mainly at the level of the individual subjects of the Russian Federation.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":"427 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41636112","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}
M. Dunford, Sam Ock Park, Yanpeng Jiang, Y. Aoyama, T. Lawanson, Alejandro F. Mercado, M. Valença
{"title":"Editorial Board 2022","authors":"M. Dunford, Sam Ock Park, Yanpeng Jiang, Y. Aoyama, T. Lawanson, Alejandro F. Mercado, M. Valença","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2141426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2141426","url":null,"abstract":"Editors Miguel ATIENZA, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile Mia M. BENNETT, Department of Geography, University of Washington, USA Leonid LIMONOV, ICSER ‘Leontief Centre’, St Petersburg, and NRU Higher School of Economics St Petersburg, Russia Nandini NAYAK, School of Development Studies, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi, India Vinicius M. NETTO, Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, University of Porto, Portugal Rita PADAWANGI, Centre for University Core, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore Sam Ock PARK, Seoul National University, The Republic of Korea Seth SCHINDLER, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK Eric SHEPPARD, UCLA, USA Ivan TUROK, HSRC, South Africa","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":"482 - 483"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45839585","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":"Area Development and Policy, the Greater BRICS and a new world order?","authors":"M. Dunford, Weidong Liu, Christophe Pompeani","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2128384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2128384","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The establishment of new international economic, political and financial institutions (BRICS, SCO, BRI, EAEU, New Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) by emerging economies was associated with a wave of interest in the way their relative growth was reshaping the global order. Most comparisons drew on gross domestic product (GDP) data. A succession of recent crises (Western financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic, Western sanctions on Russia and the associated disruption of supply chains) has, however, suggested that, in terms of real production of energy and minerals, food and manufactures vital for human survival, emerging economies are far stronger than GDP data suggest. This commentary draws on output, trade and balance of payments data to demonstrate that it is indeed the case, though with significant differences between world regions. Moreover, the establishment of new international trade and payments settlement systems may also see a significant geographical redistribution of services, where Western economies remain for the moment dominant.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":"365 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47171581","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":"The transcalar politics of urban master planning: the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Africa","authors":"Sylvia Croese, Yohei Miyauchi","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2127413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2127413","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article sheds light on the growing, but understudied role of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in supporting the local production of master plans across the African continent as a tool for guiding long-term investments in urban development. To explore the multiple logics, actors and interests driving the conception, preparation and implementation of these plans, we approach urban master planning as a transcalar process, through which diverse investment, planning and governance arrangements are produced and mobilized in ways that transcend the city scale. We illuminate these dynamics by building on an analysis of the history of Japanese development cooperation and drawing on case studies of JICA master planning in Malawi, Ghana and Tanzania.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"8 1","pages":"298 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60115994","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":"The political economy of a North–South trade agreement and the development prospects for Mexico: from NAFTA to USMCA","authors":"Alejandra Trejo-Nieto","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2107034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2107034","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the 1980s, Mexico switched from a policy of import substitution to export-oriented development. From 1994, it participated in a North–South free trade agreement with the United States and Canada (North American Free Trade Agreement – NAFTA). The agreement strongly reflected the asymmetric power of the three participants, although some Mexico’s regions served as production platforms in global value chains. Under NAFTA, Mexico’s overall growth was insipid, yet a trade surplus with the United States was the excuse for Donald Trump’s government to impose a renegotiation that led in 2020 to a new agreement (US, Mexico, Canada Agreement – USMCA) with terms yet more favourable to the United States. In the light of this experience and the political and economic factors that explain it, this paper studies to the need to get Mexico’s trade policies right through permanent consideration to the development needs in the country.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"8 1","pages":"103 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43779598","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":"The Staples Thesis, local models and competitiveness: the Western Australian economy over the 2001–2011 resource boom","authors":"P. Plummer, N. Argent","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2107035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2107035","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Conventionally, the Staples Thesis constitutes a hypothesis about both the historical and the geographical particularity of the developmental trajectories of resource-dependent economies (Staples Theory) and a methodology that prioritizes contextual or local knowledge (Staples Method). Situating the Staples Thesis in the conceptual framework of regulation theory, this paper develops a spatial econometric model of the dynamics of resource-dependent economies that is sensitive to place-based contingency. This model is grounded in a conceptual framework that distinguishes between a productivity regime and a demand regime whose qualitative properties depend on the assemblage of governance, regulatory and institutional norms that determine the coherence of the relationship between the structure of production and consumption. Within the limits of data availability, a spatial extension of a reduced-form Kaldorian growth model is employed to empirically test Staples Theory by focusing on the differential impact of both the demand regime and the productivity regime on the relative economic performance of Western Australian localities over the course of the recent (2001–11) resource boom.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"8 1","pages":"212 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48426504","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":"Cost effects of the latest mining boom on emerging economies","authors":"H. Roitbarg","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2086146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2086146","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An input–output approach is used to identify the impact of the last mining boom (2000–08) on the cost and prices of mining industry products in four BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Using input–output tables and environmental information from the World Input–Output Database (WIOD), the analysis points to higher costs in emerging economies due to higher wages, slower technical progress, positive pass-through of oil shocks and partial sequential depletion processes in industrial minerals.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"8 1","pages":"338 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48429904","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":"Reading the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (2000-2021): geoeconomics, governance, and embedding ‘creative involvement’","authors":"Han Cheng, E. Mawdsley, Weidong Liu","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2092018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2092018","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How China can promote its overseas commercial and strategic interests and protect its citizens and investments while continuing to adhere to a longstanding commitment to non-interference is a subject of intense policy and academic debate. A notion of ‘creative involvement’ has been developed to specify an increasingly flexible and pragmatic approach to projecting and managing China’s expanding global interests. In this research a close reading of the Declarations and Action Plans of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) over the period 2000–21 reveals specific degrees and types of embedding of Chinese involvement in Africa’s complex political economic landscape and an evolving reorientation of development cooperation policy practices shaped by growing concerns with African economic policy and local governance issues.","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"8 1","pages":"60 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41872351","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":"The Belt and Road Initiative narratives in Australian opinion journalism, 2013–2020","authors":"Yuan Jiang","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2080084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2080084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46422884","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":"Between the commons and the cosmos: the sacred politics of the BRI in Southeast Asia and beyond","authors":"O. Woods","doi":"10.1080/23792949.2022.2081586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2022.2081586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31513,"journal":{"name":"Area Development and Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42270518","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}