The global geography of poverty has changed over the last two decades. More than 70 percent of the world’s poor at US$1.25 a day now live not in low-income countries, but in middle-income countries (Kanbur and Sumner 2011). This raises a number of big questions. Is economic growth not sufficient to pull everybody out of poverty? Can middle-income countries or parts thereof suffer from poverty t...

Great hope is currently put in biotechnological innovation to create economic growth and ensure future competitiveness of regions and nations. For some years, economic geography and economics have been focusing on privileged sites when explaining geographical variances in actors’ ability to innovate: e.g. regional innovation systems, clusters, industrial districts and creative milieus. In such ...

Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration patterns which have transformed the global landscape of industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the pat...