China and its Regions

2004

Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

According to its treaty, one of the primary objectives of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is to achieve " development and economic growth " through regional integration. However, by the time of its creation in 1992, the powerful wind of globalization was already blowing across the continent and the whole world, removing or lowering trade barriers everywhere. In the meantime, China and—to a lesser extent—India emerged as major trading partners of many Sub-Saharan African countries. Analyzing the trade network within and outside SADC, the purpose of this study is to find out whether the SADC member states are integrated more to their regional organization than to the global economy (or globalized) and whether they are forming among themselves a true single community or different clusters. Using the basic statistical analysis of the trade directions and values along with the Social Network Analysis (SNA) of the trade network within and outside the SADC, this study finds that the member states of this organization trade more with partners outside their organization than among themselves and that South Africa, the EU, and—to a lesser extent—China occupy the central position in the trade network within and outside SADC. Furthermore, this study also reveals that instead of forming a true single community, the SADC member states are actually divided into two major clusters revolving around South Africa and the European Union.

2007

2007

Macroeconomic sustainability indicators are often applied at the national level. This national-level focus is problematic given the importance of trade in the global economy. This article uses one measure of economic weak sustainability, Genuine Savings, to highlight three issues: (a) the national-level measure is empirically unsound because it does not provide a reliable indicator of weak sustainability for any tradedependent nation; (b) it is normatively suspect because a nation can be labeled weakly sustainable even when its sustainability derives from the unsustainability of its trade partners; and (c) purported "sustainable" signals can encourage exploitative national policies. This article illustrates these conceptual problems, provides empirical case studies to establish their real-world relevance and importance, and discusses the implications for the indicator's application.

2005

Rapid development, a widening regional gap, and growing concentration of activities have characterized the Chinese economy since the economic reforms in the late 1970s. This paper examines the spatial disparities of the economic concentration in different stages of development from a geographic approach in the case of China. The paper aims at offering empirical support on (i) how concentrated the economic activities are; (ii) what factors determine the economic concentration; and (iii) whether this concentration differs in the coastal and inland regions. The results show that the high-tech industries are concentrated highly in the coastal provinces. The limited diffusion of the labor intensive activities within the coastal region does not significantly modify the major trend of the location and specialization of the industries in the inland region, and does not contribute to narrowing the regional disparities.

Government Publications Review, 1992

This bibliography covers works about government publishing in developing countries over the last 60 years. Material on the publishing of legal, statistical, and central bank material is selectively included. Otherwise, comprehensiveness was the goal. Large federal republics such as Brazil, India and Nigeria are disproportionately represented. This is believed to indicate a greater professional interest in the topic in such countries, whether from the challenge of particularly complex governmental structures or because of the relatively advanced development there of professional education for librarians.

AION (filol.) Annali dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" , 2023

An integrated approach to etymology and comparative mythology is applied to five figures of Ancient Greek myth of mostly monstrous character, all linked with the concept WATER, and often related to each other. Python and Oceanus (and other Ancient Greek serpentine characters) are identified as reflexes of the Indo-European theme of the “Serpent of the Watery Depths”, with parallels in the Indic (Áhi- Budhnyá- “Serpent of the Deep”, Vr̥tra, Śeṣa) and Norse (the Midgard Serpent) traditions, among others. The Hydra and Scylla may instead be analyzed as reflexes of a further Indo-European theme, that of the dangerous “Water Canid”, with parallels in the Irish (Onchú and Dobarchú) and the Norse (the wolf Fenrir or Fenrisulfr) traditions. A further “Eschatological Water Monster” theme links together the latter Wolf, the Greek monster Typhon and the Indic fire-monster called Vāḍava- ‘(being) of the mare, of the she-horse’ and Aurva- ‘(being) of the ocean-basin’. Read the full paper here: https://brill.com/view/journals/aion/45/1/article-p157_7.xml