Cultural studies ; Fair ; Informal sector ; Latin America ; Market ; Periodic market ; Photography ; Retail trade
Vignettes crafted around 20 photographs taken in Latin America of different marketing arrangments: traditional village markets selling produce, public markets in cities; informal vendors; centers of wholesale distribution; neighborhood shops
This paper investigates regional and international integration of maize markets in Zambia to test wether the liberalization policy has led to internally and externally integrated food markets. The results indicate that regional maize markets
are integrated ; however, the level of regional and international market integration is low and has not increased over time. - (L'A.).
Cyclic markets and central place systems: the changing temporal and locational spacing of markets in the Caspian littoral of Iran
The study of changing market-place systems has been described as a sensitive index of modernisation. Analysing the spatio-temporal relationships of markets in various places at different times can thus assist in testing developments in the role
First, the A. outlines the nature of market intelligence and its value to producers based on the existing literature and empirical research in the Canadian software product sector. Second, she investigates the spatial dimensions of the process.
Place marketing for local economic development in South Africa
Place marketing is one element of planning for local economic development. The question of place marketing in South Africa is examinated and recent experience is contextualized in an international perspective. Key themes include historical
development of place marketing, and an analysis of the directions and content of contemporary place marketing. - (AJC)
De ontwikkeling van een woningmarktmodel en zijn toepassing op Italië. The building of a housing-market model and its application to Italy
The Italian housing market has been described and analysed using a housing-market model. The social problems in this Italian housing market have been confronted with theories on housing markets. - (AGD)
Alternative approaches to market-area structure in the urban system
Central places ; Centrality ; Gravity model ; Market ; Market area ; Retail trade ; Urban system
It is argued that the market-area structure within the typical model of an urban system does not conform satisfactorily to the pattern customarily observed. The market-area structure of the standard model of a central place system is modified
by applying two additional frameworks: the economic law of market areas and the law of retail gravitation. Each application results in a more relistic pattern of market areas, while preserving the hierarchical structure of the central place system.
Transitions on the Hungarian labour market : main trends and regional disparities
Employment ; Hungary ; Labour ; Labour market ; Labour mobility ; Regional disparities ; Unemployment
This paper gives a detailed analysis about the regional differentiation of the Hungarian labour market. First two concepts of regional labour markets and labour market mobility flows are clarified, then an overview about the main trends
of the Hungarian labour market as well as a description of the old and new disparities observed on the Hungarian regional labour markets are presented. - (Zoltán Kovács).
Institutions in theories of land markets : illustrated by the Dutch market for agricultural land
Agricultural land use ; Institution ; Land ; Land market ; Legislation ; Netherlands (The) ; Theory
The paper explores how institutions may be taken into account in theories of land markets and wether that leads to better theories both of market outcomes and of market processes. New institutional economics provides the tools to investigate how
the interactions between market actors are influenced by institutions. There cannot be a general theory of land markets, only theories with a limited applicability and scope. How institutions can be incorporated into theory is illustrated by analysing the Dutch
Consumer behaviour ; Location ; Market area ; Retail trade ; Transport cost ; Trip
Fetter's law, a classical result of location theory, is respecified to include search costs. Then the implied partition of the market space is derived.
L'environnement du marketing touristique : implications et caractéristiques, développement durable, développement coordonné des macro et micro environnements.
A Fütoolaj értékesitése és felhasznalasa Magyar-orszagon. (Marketing and utilisation of fuel oil in Hungary)
On the basis of model research the marketing of refinaries can be made territorially more concentrated, though at present the distribution characteristic to the overlapping market cannot be completely eliminated. (CK).