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Blog
– Linkages with Globalization and Migration
Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, was the venue for the launch on 16 June 2012 of the just-published UNU-WIDER book Urbanization and Development in Asia: Multidimensional Perspectives, edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur...
Book Chapter
From the book:
Urbanization and Development in Asia
Book Chapter
– Assessing the Consequences of Allocation and Regulation Policy in Santiago de Chile’s Ferias Libres
From the book:
Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
Working Paper
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– The Case of Ferias Libres in Santiago de Chile
Unlike in most Latin American cities, street vendors organized in farmers’ markets popularly known as ferias libres in Santiago de Chile, gained legal recognition early in the twentieth century. Since then, comunas, or local municipalities, have provided vendors with individual licenses that...
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Land efficiency in urban China is examined, using Tianjin as a case study, from the perspective of agricultural land conservation; reduction in energy use, conventional pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions; and human time savings. Issues addressed include increased scatter on the periphery, over...
Journal Article
– African Development in an Urban World
Part of Journal Special Issue
African Development in an Urban World
Journal Article
– Some Policy Implications of Geography
Part of Journal Special Issue
African Development in an Urban World
Working Paper
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In the 1990s, a new ownership form called ‘joint-stock co-operative’ (gufen hezuozhi) became widely adopted in China’s township and village enterprise sector. The promising dynamics and high adaptive ability of the new ownership form is in contradiction with the conclusions suggested by the existing...
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– An Extended Framework for Understanding Primitive Socialist Accumulation
This paper re-examines the current debate on price scissors based on an extended framework, in which the production and trade of industrial consumer goods within the rural sector is incorporated. It confirms that in the economy considered by Preobrazhensky, consumer rationing, especially of...
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