3,643 research outputs found
Territorial unbalances in the Chinese industrialization process
No full textThe debate on industrial development policies has in recent years moved to "how" governments should intervene and what goals to pursue, rather than "if" they should be pursued. Government intervention is often driven by goals that fall into three broad categories: solving market failures, promoting strategic objectives, and reaching meta-economic objectives such as access to knowledge, education, and health care an equal distribution of wealth, sustainable social and environmental development.
Chinese territory is studied as an example of industrialization and economic growth promoted through meticulous planning and targeted industrial policies justified by strategic goals. However, over time, critical issues related to the spatial distribution of the industrialization have emerged, thus threatening the sustainability of economic growth.
The aim of this work is to analyze the distribution of economic performances in China, at several administrative levels. The analysis is carried out using statistical permutation tests. Starting from the national level, territorial unbalances were analyzed in terms of economic performance in the period 1998-2010. Economic performance is measured using a composite index that includes five variables (GDP per capita, employment, density of enterprises, exports, and industrial output). In the second phase, the study proceeds with the territorial analysis in Guangdong province, emblematic case of the Chinese industrialization, using data at county-district level. At this stage territorial unbalances are analyzed not only with respect to economic performances, but also with respect to the intensity of policy interventions (the variables used are specialized towns, development zones, innovation centers, ratio of revenues over expenditure of the local government, and investments in innovation). Finally, the last part of the work is focused on the case of Dongguan, a prefecture located in the heart of Guangdong’s industrial area. Here, territorial analysis is carried out at the town level and with respect to economic performance.
The analysis returns the picture of a country marked by strong regional unbalances. Guangdong, which is one of the most industrialized provinces of China, shows a marked dualism between core and periphery, and unbalances among different areas not only in terms of performances but also in terms of intensity of policies. Nevertheless, Dongguan does not show unbalances in terms of performances and seems, on the contrary, uniformly industrialized
Promoting communities of innovation: Do industrial policies matter?
No full textCommunities of innovation (CoI) was introduced at organisational level to pursue collaboratively innovation activities. By extending this
concept at territorial level, they may become government’s tools to undertake innovative projects for local development. This work investigates whether and,
if so, to what extent local governments support the development of CoI. We focused our attention on two different institutional settings, one in Italy and one
in China. We performed a quantitative and qualitative investigation, relying on official data and web sources. With the first, we developed a measure to
synthesise the intensity in promoting CoI; with the second, we highlighted the main programs’ characteristics and objectives supporting CoI. Results show
that in both settings, local governments make significant policy efforts in promoting CoI, focusing on similar objectives and relying on similar tools. This
highlights the engagement of governments and the relevance of their industrial policies to support the development of CoI
Professor Angela Shannon
No full textAngela Shannon shares her poetry with the Taylor community.
Angela Shannon is the author of Singing the Bones Together, a 2004 Minnesota Book Awards Finalist. She teaches English at Bethel University. Her work has been published in journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Where One Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry, and Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century. Her choreopoem Root Woman premiered at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater in Evanston, Ill
Industrializzazione e squilibri territoriali: un'analisi esplorativa dedicata al caso cinese
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between industrialization, territories and policies in a specific area of China, namely Guangdong. We will attempt to test the hypothesis discussed in the literature of a process of industrialization geographically unbalanced that in the last few decades has emphasized the dualism between central areas and peripheral areas of the province. The study is developed in two phases. In the first one, the area of Guangdong is divided in two parts, PRD and non-PRD. In this case we test the hypothesis that both performances and policies are more homogeneous in the PRD rather than in the non-PRD. This hypothesis is partially confirmed by the statistic tests. We then proceed we the second phase where the territory is further divided into 7 areas. Statistical tests show that the Inner PRD is actually the most industrialized area of the region. As concerns the policy intervention, data seem to confirm a shift in the distribution of policies from the center to the periphery. Thus, what we present in this paper illustrates a path of industrialization that has developed a number of differences between territories
Industrial Policies Promoting Communities of Innovation: Comparative Analysis in Puglia (Italy) and Guangdong (China)
No full textThe first aim is to show how governments support the creation and development of Communities of Innovation (CoI) in two different institutional settings, namely Puglia Region and Guangdong Province, highlighting both the differences and similarities in the implementation of such policies. The second objective is to measure the effort of governments in implementing policies for innovation. The overall aim is to shed light on whether, and if so, to what extent the “public hand” may be desirable for the development of CoI. Through a comparative study of Puglia and Guangdong, we first explore the innovation programs implemented by each government in the attempt of identifying those explicitly designed or having as an effect the promotion of CoI. We analyse characteristics, recipients, and objectives of the programs and highlight differences and similarities. The analysis of these programs brings us to the selection of indicators measuring the efforts made by governments for the promotion of innovation policies. We use these indicators for the computation of composite indices measuring the intensity of policies and compare the two areas in terms of public policy efforts for innovation. Considering two regions that greatly differ in terms of economy, and political and social background, we show whether and how local governments are involved in the promotion of innovation and in particular of CoI. Furthermore, we contribute to the debate that focuses on understanding the extent to which the involvement of the governments in the promotion of innovation produces desirable results. Finally, from a practical perspective, this work offers a critical analysis of a number of policy levers for the promotion of investments and initiatives aimed at creating favourable conditions for the flourishing of formal and informal CoI. The outcomes of the work gives strength to the idea that in the last few years innovation has become the main objective of governments, and CoI are one of the privileged mechanisms to achieve this objective. The comparison of Puglia and Guangdong, taken as two diametrically opposed examples in terms of institutional setting, may lead to uncover similar roles and uses of public interventions in the establishment and development of CoI. The demonstration of consistencies between the two areas in the implementation of policies would contribute to the more general industrial policy debate heralding the importance of public policies in favour of innovation, even in places where industrial policies are not clearly institutionalized
China: industrialization, growth and territorial disparities. A challenge to the sustainability of the process of change and development
No full textIn the last thirty years, China has experienced a continuous and intense economic growth. The literature bears evidence that the process of growth and industrialization has been accompanied by territorial disparities. It is also reported that the implementation of economic policies partially contributed to territorial disparities. The aim of our work is to investigate how much the process of growth and industrialization has been accompanied by disparities and how they have changed over time.
The analysis is developed in two stages. We first analyze the path of growth and industrialization that China has made in the period object of our analysis. We use a synthesis indicator that includes variables for exports, production, income, employment, and enterprises. Then the focus is on the territorial level in which, using data for the 31 chinese provinces, we analyze heterogeneity of industrialization and growth. We finally try to highlight which provinces have driven growth, which are lagging behind and which have improved their condition with respect to others
Angela Shanté : 2022 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Angela Shanté gives an acceptance speech for When My Cousins Come to Town, illustrated by Keisha Morris (West Margin Press)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/irma_black_awards/1004/thumbnail.jp
The Family History of Angela Ruth Weidert
No full textAngela Ruth Weidert authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2018 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
Promoting business excellence at local level: the case of Guangdong Province, China
No full textPurpose
Explore the relationship between medium-large firms’ industrial performance, territorial factors and local development policies.
Design/methodology/approach
Empirical econometric investigation based on a panel dataset of county-level data , carried out in the Guangdong Province for the period 2000-2008.
Findings
Results suggest a positive and significant relationship between policies at the local level and business performance. The most important determinants of industrial performance appear to be development zones and specialized towns - on the policy side – as well as the presence urban areas, investment in innovation and FDI. Given the complexity of the relationships further research is called for in order to build more evidence for this and other Chinese provinces.
Research limitations/implications (if applicable)
The analysis confirms the initial hypothesis that business excellence can be influenced by the specific characteristics of the territories where firms are located, among which there might be government policies aiming at local development and encouraging a better business environment.
Implications for the society
Relevant to the policy-making process, results suggest that business excellence should not be viewed as only a matter of business strategies. It can be result of territorial excellence and effective local development policies.
Originality/value
In the international debate there are very few papers testing the relationship between policies and industrial performances in China. Even fewer explore this relationship at the local level. This paper offers a unique county-level perspective and in-depth view on local industrial policies
Materia-autore = Author-Matter
No full textThe etymology of the word author refers to an act of creation, an act of augmentation, from the Latin verb augere. Author instantiates creation, the expansion of the pre-existing. In 1967 Roland Barthes declared the death of the author in his famous essay to state once more that the crisis is that of the author as a single subjectivity and as a term that condenses prestige, undermined by the de-subjectivation strategies of automatism, fortuity and fragmentation of the historical avant-gardes, as well as by the machinic act and by the reproducibility of the second avant-gardes.
Fifty years after Barthes’ paradigmatic formula, this lack of authorship appears to be a successful brand. The ten- sions between the anomie of matter, the law that establishes authorship and the economy that makes the work pos- sible, invoke discordant perspectives. Artists make the self-destruction of their work the real work, and appeal is made for the demolition of architectures, whether by a recognised author or not, in order to re-design, or better still, re-claim the territory. Artificial intelligence consolidates its logics and its design by progressively shedding human ingenuity. The space of criticism becomes, finally, increasingly ephemeral. However, there is an acceptation of criti- cism that is, rather than an individual ‘signature’, an exploration and explanation of how design makes theory.
The binomial author-matter seeks to mark these tensions and contradictions: the featured term author is main- tained to underline the persistence of that prestigious subjectivity, at the very moment when the rhetoric of “mat- ter as an author” promises other forms of authorship
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