Geographies of the financial crisis   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Manuel Aalbers 《Area》2009,41(1):34-42

Real estate is, by definition, local as it is spatially fixed. Mortgage lending, however, has developed from a local to a national market and is increasingly a global market today. An understanding of the financial crisis is ultimately a spatialised understanding of the linkages between local and global. This article looks at the geographies of the mortgage crisis and credit crunch and asks the question: how are different places affected by the crisis? The article looks at different states, different cities, different neighbourhoods and different financial centres. Investors in many places had invested in residential mortgage backed securities and have seen their value drop. Housing bubbles, faltering economies and regulation together have shaped the geography of the financial crisis on the state and city level in the US. Subprime and predatory lending have affected low-income and minority communities more than others and we therefore not only see a concentration of foreclosures in certain cities, but also in certain neighbourhoods. On an international level, the long-term economical and political consequences of this are still mostly unknown, but it is clear that some financial centres in Asia (including the Middle East) will become more important now that globalisation is coming full circle. This article does not present new empirical research, but brings together work from different literatures that all in some way have a specific angle on the financial crisis. The aim of this article is to make the geographical dimensions of the financial crisis understandable to geographers that are not specialists in all – or even any – of these literatures, so that they can comprehend the spatialisation of this crisis.  相似文献   

Globalization, tourism and local living conditions on Jamaica's north coast   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

David Dodman 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2009,30(2):204-219

Jamaica's tourism industry has grown rapidly in recent decades, with significant implications for national development. However, the distribution of the benefits from this growth sector has been socially and spatially uneven. Drawing on substantial data sets collected through a variety of participatory research practices, this paper assesses the socioeconomic and environmental challenges facing the residents of Montego Bay and Falmouth on Jamaica's north coast, the main site for tourism development in the country. The research involved training community residents as researchers, and used traditional quantitative methods alongside techniques borrowed from participatory rapid appraisal.
The local society and economy are clearly shown to be affected by processes of globalization and mobility. However, existing patterns of national economic development – including the expansion of the tourism industry – have failed to alleviate the social and environmental problems faced by relatively powerless members of the Jamaican society. In contrast, the most effective responses to this situation have involved stakeholder groups negotiating and breaking down entrenched scaled relationships through the mobilization of particular forms of social networks.  相似文献   

中国城市化快速发展的动力机制   总被引：40，自引：3，他引：37  

陈波翀  郝寿义  杨兴宪 《地理学报》2004,59(6):1068-1075

中国的城市化快速发展始于1996年,经济全球化和经济转型是其基本特征。集聚和扩散是流的两种基本运动形态,属于城市化动力的核心表现形态。作者建立了不确定条件下农村剩余劳动力的城市化决策模型,解释了政府主导条件下、改革开放以来和城市化快速发展阶段城市化速度的差异,认为城市化快速发展是政府和市场共同作用的结果。在对传统工业化与城市化之间数量关系进行计量分析的基础上,提出了城市化快速发展主要由第三产业推动的观点。根据工业制成品的进出口差额,粗略估计了封闭条件下中国的工业产值,并计算了国际贸易对城市化水平的贡献程度。研究表明,继续推进市场化改革和扩大对外开放,将有助于中国城市化的快速发展。  相似文献   

经济全球化下地方生产网络模式演变分析——以中国为例   总被引：14，自引：5，他引：9  

马丽  刘卫东  刘毅 《地理研究》2004,23(1):87-96

作为地方生产网络的主体 ,在经济全球化下 ,企业行为是全球化力量和地方化力量共同作用的结果。其中 ,全球化力量促使了企业生产要素可以跨越时间和空间障碍 ,在所有区位自由布局 ;地方化力量则使企业生产活动依然受到地方经济基础和制度文化背景的影响。本文认为经济全球化下地方生产网络是全球性企业和地方性企业战略行为博弈的结果。全球性企业和地方性企业的战略行为不同 ,其对全球生产网络和地方生产网络的影响也不同。本文从企业行为博弈的角度来分析经济全球化下 ,地方性生产企业的行为选择及其导致的地方生产网络变化 ,并以目前我国常见的三种地方生产网络演变模式为例 ,进行实证分析。  相似文献   

全球对外直接投资的新特点   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

汤建中  盛强 《世界地理研究》2000,9(4):1-7

投资自由是经济全球化的重要动力机制,随着世界经济全球化程度不断加深,对外直接投资（ＦＤＩ）出现了许多新特点,以资源优化配置带动的ＦＤＩ迅猛发展,跨国公司的生产经营和研究开发活动日益全球化,企业的跨国并购加剧,本文运用翔实的资料,对全球ＦＤＩ的新特点进行了分析研究。  相似文献   

Globalization, grapes and gender: Women's work in traditional and agro-export production in northern Chile     

ANNA BEE 《The Geographical journal》2000,166(3):255-265

Recent changes in the global political economy have had dramatic effects on the lives of women as they are incorporated into globalization processes, such as the expansion of agribusiness, in often marginal and unstable ways. However, it is vital to consider how these globalization processes are mediated by women in ways that reflect local geo-historical contexts. This paper explores the expansion of the fruit export sector, land tenure, community organization and female employment in agriculture in northern Chile. Agro-export production has marginalized but not destroyed the small-scale farming sector and large-scale export farms co-exist with small-scale domestically-orientated farms. Female labour has been very important in the success of fresh fruit exports and many rural women negotiate both waged work in the fruit export economy and unwaged work on family farms. The paper explores the women's perceptions of agricultural work and how these relate to their identities as unpaid workers on the family farm and as waged workers in the agro-export sector. The paper thus attempts to explore the multiplicity of ways that women experience rapid changes in the agrarian sector and how these changes relate to the maintenance of more 'traditional'practices and identities.  相似文献   

Urbanization under globalization: How does the Belt and Road Initiative affect urbanization levels in participating countries     

MA Haitao 《地理学报(英文版)》2022,32(11):2170-2188

China’s Belt and Road Initiative(BRI) presents the world with a new era of inclusive globalization, which will shape urbanization patterns globally. This study considered the launch of BRI as a quasi-experiment, where we evaluated the BRI’s impact on urbanization by way of difference-in-differences(DID) and propensity score matching(PSM) methods. The results showed that the BRI exerted a significantly negative effect on urbanization in its first three years. Its positive effect emerged from the ...  相似文献   

区域一体化研究综述：尺度、联系与边界   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

陈航航  贺灿飞  毛熙彦 《热带地理》2018,38(1):1-12

区域一体化是当今世界最具活力的经济现象之一,它是一个多维度的空间现象,也是一个多学科参与的科学问题。地理学独特的尺度、联系和边界视角对于理解区域一体化是如何改变世界经济格局及其对国家和区域发展的影响有重要意义。文章梳理了区域一体化理论和发展,以尺度、联系和边界的分析视角重新审视了快速发展的区域一体化进程,阐述了区域一体化的网络化特征和多维联系,重新定义了区域一体化中的多重边界,并从“全球―地方”联系的角度对区域一体化进程下有关区域和地方发展的研究进行了综述。区域一体化的实践表现出越来越多的网络特征,形成了以国家权力和关系为导向,涵盖多维度邻近的立体网络空间;区域一体化的边界效应重塑了全球经济格局,同时传统的领土边界依然重要;区域一体化的制度安排深刻影响了一国边境地区的发展和经济地理格局。最后,针对区域一体化,从尺度建构、内部联系、边界效应和多元分析框架等角度指出了亟待学界解决的一些问题,并展望了未来的研究趋势。  相似文献   

“一带一路”倡议的理论建构——从新自由主义全球化到包容性全球化   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

刘卫东  MichaelDunford  高菠阳 《地理科学进展》2017,36(11):1321-1331

中国政府提出的“一带一路”倡议正在成为世界上越来越多国家共同探索国际经济治理新机制的一个平台。与此同时,以新自由主义为旗帜的经济全球化已经走到“十字路口”,逆全球化的声音不绝于耳,如何推动全球化进一步发展已成为世界性挑战。在此背景下,越来越多的政治精英和学者认为“一带一路”将引领新型全球化道路,其中一个重要的探索方向就是包容性全球化。本文在简要剖析经济全球扩张的历程及其机制并揭示新自由主义全球化局限性的基础上,结合“一带一路”的实践活动,提出了包容性全球化的核心内涵,包括国家应发挥好“调节者”的角色、解决资本市场“期限错配”的问题、选择适合国情的发展道路、保障各方平等地参与全球化,以及在经济全球化过程中保护文化多元性。尽管这些内涵还不足以精确地定量刻画包容性全球化,但可为后续研究提供一些借鉴的方向,也为“一带一路”建设提供了理论思考的方向。  相似文献   

Firm entry modes and Chinese business networks: Malaysian investments in Vietnam          下载免费PDF全文

Guanie Lim 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2016,37(2):176-194

This paper examines the Malaysian Chinese firms that have expanded into Vietnam. Based on research and qualitative personal interviews with Malaysian Chinese firms that have invested in Vietnam, the paper unpacks the entry modes that these firms have undertaken. It argues that the Malaysian Chinese firms prefer joint ventures in their Vietnamese businesses to wholly‐owned subsidiaries and personal direct investments. This paper also argues that such investments are often embedded in social and intraethnic ties, which connect Malaysian Chinese firms with Vietnam's ethnic Chinese businessmen. To this end, these firms tend to rely on informal ties and nonmarket institutions in the form of the ethnic Chinese business networks. Nevertheless, the Malaysian Chinese firms are not averse to collaborating with nonethnic Chinese firms that enjoy a good relationship with the Vietnamese state. This observation is especially marked in the property and construction, and finance sectors.  相似文献