Anthony J Venables (113 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa s relative poverty. Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study, however, identifies a deeper reason: African cities are closed to the world. Compared with other developing cities, cities in Africa produce few goods and services for trade on regional and international markets. To grow economically as they are growing in size, Africa s cities must open their doors to the world. They need to specialize in manufacturing, along with other regionally and globally tradable goods and services. And to attract global investment in tradables production, cities must develop scale economies, which are associated with successful urban economic development in other regions.Such scale economies can arise in Africa if city and country leaders make concerted efforts to bring agglomeration effects to urban areas. Today, potential urban investors look at Africa and see crowded, disconnected, and costly cities which inspire low expectations for the scale of urban production and for returns on invested capital. How can these cities become economically dense not merely crowded? How can they acquire efficient connections and draw firms and skilled workers with a more affordable, livable urban environment?From a policy standpoint, the answer must be to address the structural problems affecting African cities. Foremost among these problems are institutional and regulatory constraints that misallocate land and labor, fragment physical development, and limit productivity. As long as African cities lack functioning land markets and regulations and early, coordinated infrastructure investments, they will remain local cities: closed to regional and global markets, trapped into producing only locally traded goods and services, and limited in their economic growth.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. xviii, 241 p.

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Hardbound. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents Foreword. 1. Spatial disparities in human development an overview of the Asian evidence/Ravi Kanbur Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan. I. Methodological issues 2. Poverty mapping with aggregate census data what is the loss in precision/Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch. 3. A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia/Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks. 4. Trade liberalization and spatial inequality a methodological innovation in Vietnamese perspective/Henning Tarp Jensen and Finn Tarp. II. Inequality in Asia 5. Fifty years of regional inequality in China a journey through central planning reform and openness/Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang. 6. Income inequality in rural China regression based decomposition using household data/Guanghua Wan and Zhangyue Zhou. 7. Divergent means and convergent inequality of incomes among the provinces and cities of urban China/John Knight Li Shi and Zhao Renwei. 8. Industrial location and spatial inequality theory and evidence from India/Somik V. Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty. 9. Spatial horizontal inequality and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal/S. Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates. 10. Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines an exploratory analysis/Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa. 11. Spatial inequality and development in central Asia/Kathryn H. Anderson and Richard Pomfret. III. Poverty in Asia 12. Decomposing spatial differences in poverty in India/Shatakshee Dhongde. 13. Commune level estimation of poverty measures and its application in Cambodia/Tomoki Fujii. Index. Spatial disparities are a measure of the unequal distribution of income wealth power and resources between peoples in different locations. This book focuses on issues directly related to the millennium development goals including conflict poverty and the causes and consequences of inequality. It applies the latest research techniques including regression based decomposition poverty decomposition and computable general equilibrium models. 322 pp.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 162 pages. 10.50x8.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Depending on one's point of view, multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the villains of the globalized economy. Governments compete fiercely for foreign direct investment by such companies, but complain when firms go global and move their activities elsewhere. Multinationals are seen by some as threats to national identities and wealth and are accused of riding roughshod over national laws and of exploiting cheap labor. However, the debate on these companies and foreign direct investment is rarely grounded on sound economic arguments. This book brings clarity to the debate. With the contribution of other leading experts, Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Anthony Venables assess the determinants of multinationals' actions, investigating why their activity has expanded so rapidly, and why some countries have seen more such activity than others. They analyze their effects on countries that are recipients of inward investments, and on those countries that see multinational firms moving jobs abroad.The arguments are made using modern advances in economic analysis, a case study, and by drawing on the extensive empirical literature that assesses the determinants and consequences of activity by multinationals. The treatment is rigorous, yet accessible to all readers with a background in economics, whether students or professionals. Drawing out policy implications, the authors conclude that multinational enterprises are generally a force for the promotion of prosperity in the world economy. …