Commentary: Shifts in Economic Geography and Their Causes
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The literature on economic geography has given us many deep insights into the spatial location of economic activity, the forces behind agglomeration, and their implications. For example, Paul Collier’s paper at this conference points out the difficulties that Africa will have in gaining a foothold in labor-intensive manufactured articles (such as textiles) now that South Asia has established a high degree of specialization in those industries. But the economic geography literature seems
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No 767 December 2006 Shifts in Economic Geography and their Causes Anthony
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