Trade, globalization and uneven development

Sheppard, Eric

doi:10.1177/0309132511407953

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“…In order to understand how agricultural trade in East Asia has been restructured, one must acknowledge “entanglements with the more‐than economic” aspects of trade (Sheppard , ). As Sheppard notes, “Nation states also are territorially and socially differentiated into subnational, and transcended by transnational, regions, which also shape, and are shaped by, national‐scale trade” (2012, 60).…”

Section: Agrarian Questions In East Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Food Safety and Contract Edamame: The Geopolitics of the Vegetable Trade in East Asia

Wang

2018

Geographical Review

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This paper examines how the proliferation of the new Japanese food-safety regime has influenced the edamame industries of China and Taiwan-the two largest producers of edamame beans in the world. Edamame is not only a popular cuisine in the Asia-Pacific region, it is also responsible for the largest-scale frozen vegetable flow in East Asia. This study addresses how the interaction between geopolitical realities and the subcontracting of edamame crops has created an access regime governing the vegetable trade in East Asia. By addressing the complexity of the geopolitics related to contract farming, this study considers the extent to which the Japanese edamame trade has subordinated edamame producers in multiple places in Asia, while Taiwan's edamame industry has positioned itself to obtain preferential access to the edamame flow between Japan, Taiwan, and China.

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Section: Agrarian Questions In East Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Food Safety and Contract Edamame: The Geopolitics of the Vegetable Trade in East Asia

Wang

2018

Geographical Review

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“…These developments indicate the importance of exchange rates, investment, cost competition, trade and growth considerations that have played a relatively small role in recent economic geography. There are several reasons for these absences: geographers have paid little attention to trade (Andresen, 2010;Sheppard, 2012); research that deals with value chains and geographies of trade does not deal with trade theories (Sheppard, 2012), though EG concentrates on real or institutional, micro-economic supply-side approaches to the study of economic development.…”

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“…Of these arguments, the claim that trade is driven by comparative advantage is widely although not universally accepted. The other two claims are contested, while the neoclassical trade theory prediction of regional income convergence has not materialized (see Durlauf et al, 2005;Sheppard, 2012). As trade also occurred between similarly endowed countries in goods produced with similar factor intensities, new theories were developed.…”

Section: Specialization and The International Division Of Labour: Thementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These models rest, however, upon a number of unrealistic assumptions (Sheppard, 2012) and in many cases rely on an aggregate production function linking quantities of heterogeneous production factors measured in physical terms with rewards to factors of production. 2 As Steedman (1979) showed however the complications that arise for neoclassical trade theory due to the reswitching problem can be avoided by comparing prices of production.…”

Section: Specialization and The International Division Of Labour: Thementioning

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Geography, trade and regional development: the role of wage costs, exchange rates and currency/capital movements

Dunford

Liu

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Journal of Economic Geography

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Existing theories of geographical specialization and trade can be classified into four groups: supply-side; demand-side; endogenous growth and institutional models. In the recent past, economic geographers have paid little attention to earlier regional economic analysis and concentrated for the most part on detailed examination of production structures, the chains linking upstream and downstream activities into production and value networks, clusters, institutions and more recently, economic evolution. As a result, existing economic geography is ill-equipped to deal with the impact of some aspects of the evolution of costs, exchange rates, trade and capital flows on regional development and pays relatively little attention to economic calculation. Geographical economics includes an underlying theory of trade and micro-foundations, yet its supply-side approach neglects the role of monetary and demand-side (except in gravity models of trade) factors. The aim of this article is to argue for an extension of existing theoretical frameworks to embrace these issues in the light of recent trends in global economic geography and successive financial and debt crises that have stricken the developed world.

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“…New competitiveness theories, neoclassical theories and new factor endowments theories were developed. Modern theory Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson and competitive advantage of country is definite with endowments of production factors, instead of production costs (Sheppard, 2011). Among new theories is new economic geography (Krugman, 1998).…”

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Drivers of Global Competitiveness in the European Union Countries in 2014 and 2017

Marčeta

Bojnec

2020

Organizacija

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Background and Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to find the key drivers of Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) in the European Union (EU-28) countries from the aspect of country’s global competitiveness: institutions, macroeconomic environment, infrastructure, higher education, market effectiveness, market size, technological readiness, innovation and business sophistication.Methodology: This paper investigates global competitiveness of the EU-28 countries with the use of GCI in the periods 2014-2015 and 2017-2018. The correlation analysis and regression analysis are applied for testing the set two hypotheses.Results: The empirical results confirmed our hypotheses that GCI is particularly significantly positively correlated with innovation and business sophistication, and universities-industry collaboration in researches, and clusters development.Conclusion: The paper contributes to the literature of global competitiveness, by examining the relationship of sub-indexes of competitiveness of the EU-28 countries, pointing out the influence of universities-industries collaboration in researches and cluster development with geographic concentration of companies. The results and findings can be relevant for science, economic and research policy, and managerial practices that enhance innovation and business sophistication for research in collaboration of companies, universities, higher education institutions, and decision makers. The implications of this study can be important for better understanding of drivers of the EU-28 countries global competitiveness.

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Trade, globalization and uneven development

Cited by 53 publications

References 172 publications

Food Safety and Contract Edamame: The Geopolitics of the Vegetable Trade in East Asia

Food Safety and Contract Edamame: The Geopolitics of the Vegetable Trade in East Asia

Geography, trade and regional development: the role of wage costs, exchange rates and currency/capital movements

Drivers of Global Competitiveness in the European Union Countries in 2014 and 2017

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