Mass markets - little markets : a call for research on the proletarianization process, women workers and the creation of demand in Geography of gender in the Third World.
One world, millions of places: the end of history and the ascendancy of geography
Capitalism ; Core-periphery ; Democracy ; Economic space ; Economic system ; Liberalism ; Political geography ; State ; Territoriality ; World economic order ; Worldmarket
F. Fukuyama has argued that the triumphs of liberal democracy and the hegemony of capitalist markets in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since 1989 herald the end of History. This essay suggests that the concept of a relatively homogeneous
world does not mean a parallel end of Geography. On the contrary, it suggests that the importance of space and place is increasing in the structuring of the contemporary world, providing a challenge for political geographers.
Economic space ; Economic system ; Geographical space ; International economy ; Spatial differentiation ; Technology ; World ; World economic order ; Worldmarket
Univariate classification of differentiated international markets
Competition ; Demand ; Economic integration ; International trade ; Market ; Price fixing ; Spatial analysis ; Theory ; World
Hotelling initiated the use of spatial analogies in assessing market differentiation. The continuum of demand points in the economies is partitioned into homogeneous segments by use of a classification algorithm that minimizes within group variation
. The criteria used for classifying are two indicators of market overlap, proximity of GNP and proximity of per capita GNP. The market partitions are compared with other classifications of international markets.
Housing ; Housing market ; Housing occupance ; Public sector ; Rent ; Rent control ; Rented market ; Third World
This review attempts to provide an overview of the literature, not because one form of tenure can be considered in isolation from other property market processes, but as a springboard for future research into urban housing markets which is less
Outcomes in private markets for rental housing are seen as a consequence of a shift in demand or supply that may itself reflect a policy initiative. Two markets are examined: a market for rental housing stock and a market for rental accomodation
. Basic data are reviewed since the Second World War. Important shifts in the demand for, and supply of, rental accomodation are discussed, and major policy initiatives that may have affected these are described.
than exclusion from, the world economy, to increasing service-sector rather than extractive-sector investment, and to foreign companies producing for local and regional markets as well as for international markets.
To redress the deficiency of globalization studies in the periphery of the world economy, The A. examines globalization empirically from the ground upwards through an analysis of foreign companies. The evidence points to growing inclusion in, rather
Landlordism in Third World urban low-income settlements: a case for further research
Household behaviour ; Housing ; Housing improvement ; Housing occupance ; Investment ; Poverty ; Rent control ; Residential mobility ; Third World
The increasing penetration of commodity relationships has raised the cost of ownership and has implications for the development of landlordism. There is a need to focus on rental housing markets in low-income settlements, but these markets have been
Die Lage auf wichtigen Agrarmärkten der EG The situation in important EEC agricultural markets
Both the EEC and the world farm markets are in a constant state of flux and can be subject to relatively sharp changes at short notice. The resolutions of the Council of Farm Ministers also produce rapid and radical changes in the markets (e.g
. the milk quota scheme). Increasing regulation of the markets is making it increasingly difficult to keep track of development. This study is designed to help here. - (L'A.).
The limitations of planned land development for low-income housing in Third World cities
Built up area ; Ecuador ; Housing ; Iran ; Land ; Land market ; Poverty ; State control ; Third World ; Urban development ; Urban environment ; Urban planning ; Urban policy
The analysis of planning as an agency is anappropriate in Third World cities with their grossly inadequate public and unevenly distributed private resources. Neither of the states of Iran and Ecuador succeeded in including genuinely poor households
Performative research for a climate politics of hope : rethinking geographic scale, “impact” scale, and markets
Australia ; Climatic change ; Energy ; Impact ; Market ; New South Wales ; Renewable energy ; Research ; Scale ; Sustainable development
This paper examines the contributions that grassroots renewable energy initiatives might make to a climate changing world. However, to detect the potential of these initiatives, familiar concepts of scale and markets have to be recast. It uses
insights from the academic literature and research into grassroots renewable energy initiatives in Newcastle, New South Wales, to show how scale and markets can be rethought, thereby making it possible to detect some of the ways that grassroots re-newable
energy initiatives are helping transform ways of living and working, and building hope in a climate changing world.