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Politique de déguerpissement et processus de restructuration des territoires de Libreville [Gabon]

L'Espace Politique, 2014
Evictions are plentiful in sub-Saharan Africa. Libreville, capital of Gabon, does not make an exception to this rule. Since the 1970s, eviction appears as a fundamental step in the restructuring process of Libreville’s space where built up areas are ...
Rano-Michel Nguema
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Intercity Trade and Convergent versus Divergent Urban Growth [PDF]

The paper studies intercity trade and growth in an overlapping-generations economy where tradeable goods are produced using a composite of capital, raw labor and intermediates, and are combined in each city to produce a composite.
Yannis M. Ioannides
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge, networks of cities and growth in regional urban systems [PDF]

The objective of this paper is to measure the impact of different kinds of knowledge and external economies on urban growth in an intraregional context.
Joan Trullén, Rafael Boix
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A complex network approach to urban growth [PDF]

The economic geography can be viewed as a large and growing network of interacting activities. This fundamental network structure and the large size of such systems makes complex networks an attractive model for its analysis. In this paper we propose the
Alexander Hellervik, Claes Andersson, Koen Frenken   +2 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterizing the Spatio-Temporal Variations of Urban Growth with Multifractal Spectra. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel), 2023
Fu M, Chen Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

ICT Sector, Globalization and Urban Economic Growth: Evidence from Bangalore (India) [PDF]

This paper aims at economic analysis of economic globalization and urban growth of Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, as they are related to ICT sector.
Narayana, M. R.
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source