A New Economic Geography of Trade and Development? Governing South–South Trade, Value Chains and Production Networks

Towards a paradigm of Southern urbanism

“…The inability of the formal sector to absorb even a fraction of those willing to sell their labor power is at least tacitly acknowledged by the many governments that have implemented basic income grant schemes (Ferguson 2015). While industry has shifted from its postwar centers in the North to so-called 'emerging economies' in the South (Frö bel, Heinrichs, and Kreye 1980), it remains heavily concentrated and the rapid expansion of SouthSouth trade has posed serious challenges to infant industries in the South (Horner 2015). This explains why public and private capital tends to be invested in infrastructure and real estate, rather than production, and this is profoundly transforming cityscapes.…”

Selective Migration, Regional Growth and Convergence: Evidence from Italy

“…A fundamental shift in economic power and political influence from Western countries towards the East is having extensive reverberations for patterns of trade, investment and geopolitical alliances (Dunford et al, 2016;Horner, 2016). This coincides with diminished dynamism in many advanced economies, attributable to a slowdown in productivity growth and ageing demographics.…”

The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa: The role of the Rising Powers

“…We thus seek to develop an analytical framework that is able to show how energy regimes are constituted through a dispersed 'state' that involves complex relationships between multiple actors and operates across borders and one that can account for the evergrowing role of transnational actors and emerging transnational spaces of south-south cooperation around clean energy. A focus on global production networks and value chains is also useful here in that it helps offset more macro-scale, geopolitical interpretations by taking an actor-centric approach to understanding the variegated, country and industry-specific 15 development implications of south-south trade flows (Horner 2015) particularly those around renewable energy (c.f. Dunford et al 2013;Curran 2015).…”