Michael Dunford
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3711296 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Dunford |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Dunford |
| ASSINATURA | DUNFORD M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0028-3130 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 75 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 812 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Energy Dilemmas
Common Prosperity (Chinese Concept Of)
In China the idea of common prosperity dates back to 1953. After 1979 China chose to let some people and places get rich first in order to accelerate economic development. The result was extraordinary sustained economic growth but at the expense of large increases in urban–rural, regional, and social inequalities in income and wealth, themselves associated with the growth of private capital and a strong increase in mass incidents. In 1999 the Com…
China’s evolving international economic engagement
Many regional and national development questions involve the interaction of external and internal evolutions and can be conceived macroeconomically in balance-of-payments terms. In this light, China’s engagement in international trade, outward and inward foreign direct investment, accumulation of reserves, development cooperation, aid and international finance initiatives are examined and related to evolving domestic and international conditions.…
Causes of the Crisis in Ukraine
The military conflict between Russia and Ukraine that is also a conflict between Russia and the United States and its NATO allies is fundamentally a result of two interconnected factors. The first is the threat to the security of Russia posed by the enlargement of NATO in violation of commitments made at the time of the reunification of Germany and of the principle of indivisible security. The second is deeply rooted internal divisions in Ukraine…
China’s development path, 1949–2022
China’s path is conceived as a transition from an economically underdeveloped and semi-colonised country of the Global South into a modern socialist country in a multipolar world where successive steps (modes of regulation) were shaped by China’s external environment (uneven and combined development) and a succession of contradictions and crises encountered along the way. Three phases are examined: a turbulent phase of socialist construction in a…
Uneven and Combined Development
The concept of uneven and combined development (U&CD) recognizes that uneven development gives rise to societal interaction which itself also shapes the characteristics and development paths of cities, regions, and countries. Combination plays a crucial yet often underemphasized role in the explanation of geographical differentiation and the multiplicity, hybridity, and multilinearity of processes of development. U&CD plays an especially importan…
Area Development and Policy , the Greater BRICS and a new world order
The establishment of new international economic, political and financial institutions (BRICS, SCO, BRI, EAEU, New Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) by emerging economies was associated with a wave of interest in the way their relative growth was reshaping the global order. Most comparisons drew on gross domestic product (GDP) data. A succession of recent crises (Western financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic, Western sanctions …
The Chinese Path to Common Prosperity
In China the idea of common prosperity dates back to 1953. After 1979 China chose to let some people and places get rich first to accelerate economic development, with Deng Xiaoping arguing that public property could prevent social polarization. The result was extraordinary sustained economic growth but at the expense of large increases in urban-rural, regional and social inequalities in income and wealth themselves associated with the growth of …
In 70 years how did the New China eliminate extreme poverty
China is noted for remarkable reductions in rural poverty and aims to eliminate it by 2020. Achieving this outcome requires identification of the remaining poor population and a strategy that effectively addresses the causes of their poverty. This article explores the ways in which China has converted itself from the poorest country in the world in 1949 to a country in which extreme poverty is on the verge of disappearance. It examines the roles …
Coupling national geo-political economic strategies and the Belt and Road Initiative
Geography and the theory of uneven and combined development
As societal interaction and combination play a vital role in shaping spatio-temporal development paths, meta-theories of uneven development should give way to a relational meta-theory of uneven and combined development (U&CD). U&CD examines at multiple levels of abstraction not just internal causal mechanisms governing the trajectories of individual societies but also causal mechanisms deriving from societal interaction in a world of multiple une…
Regional Inequalities
Analyses of regional inequalities involve the examination of differences in shared, abstract characteristics of regional economies. Most attention is paid to relative income and wealth and to the way in which they change: if inequalities get smaller, convergence or catch‐up occurs, and if they get wider, divergence is said to occur. This entry outlines the steps involved in examining regional inequalities and their evolution, starting with the de…
Chinese and Development Assistance Committee (DAC) development cooperation and development finance
A comparison of Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and Chinese models of development cooperation and finance is indicative of whether or not the principles underling the Belt and Road Initiative differ significantly from those of the western-dominated liberal order. In spite of superficial similarities, the Chinese model rests on a different conception of international relationships: western models derive from an experience of colonialism and…
The Belt and Road Initiative
China's Belt and Road initiative (BRI) is a call for an open and inclusive model of sustainable international economic, political, and cultural cooperation and development that draws on the cultural connotations of the ancient Silk Road(s). The aim is to establish a new type of international relations centered on win–win cooperation and common development achieved through the advancement of connectivity in a multiplicity of fields and to contribu…
Who, where and why? Characterizing China’s rural population and residual rural poverty
China is noted for remarkable reductions in rural poverty and aims to eliminate it by 2020. Achieving this outcome requires identification of the remaining poverty population and a strategy that effectively addresses the causes of their poverty. Drawing on a 2017 survey of 4626 rural households and 13,689 individuals in 628 counties, characteristics of rural China, of people identified as remaining poor and of poverty classifications, are examine…
Land use balance for urban economy
Governance capacity, state policy and the rise of the Chongqing notebook computer cluster
The ability of a local development-oriented state to make their localities nodes in global production networks (GPNs) depends on the policy instruments available to it and the capacity of various actors to exploit this policy envelope fully and effectively. The post-2008 relocation and expansion in Chongqing of a coastal Chinese notebook computer manufacturing cluster is a compelling example of an activist state relocating and expanding parts of …
Capitalism’s ragged fringes
This Commentary on Eric Sheppard’s ‘Globalizing capitalism’s ragged fringes: Thinking through Jakarta’ elaborates on the concept of fringes, defining them in geographical (the West and the rest) terms and as regards social relations. To explain the differentiation of territorial development pathways, it considers the roles of the variable character of places and interactivity and suggests that Leon Trotsky’s theory of uneven and combined developm…
Chinese perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a call for an open and inclusive model of sustainable international economic, political and cultural cooperation and development under the guiding principles of the peaceful coexistence of sovereign states, achieved through multiple types of increased connectivity and financed by new multilateral financial instruments. This article outlines the evolution of the BRI, its relationship to changing conditions…
Regional Inequalities
Analyses of regional inequalities involve the examination of differences in shared, and therefore abstract, characteristics of regional economies. Most attention is paid to relative income and wealth and to the way in which they change: if inequalities get smaller, convergence or catch‐up occurs, and if they get wider, divergence is said to occur. This entry outlines the steps involved in examining regional inequalities and their evolution, start…
Regional Development Models
Considered as a whole, models of regional development identify and examine a range of centripetal and centrifugal forces, whose relative weight drives relative development. The process of development is dialectical: the cause of what happens at one point in time is in part a consequence of what happened earlier. In the light of these observations, this entry surveys some competing models of regional development. After an account of neoclassical m…
The rise of China and its implications for economics and other developing countries
The rise of China is an important case of latecomer advantage that reflects a privilege of backwardness. As such, it affords an important example of the principle of uneven and combined development, and important lessons for other emerging countries. These lessons are many and include the importance of the grounding of economic models in supportive and capable institutional configurations
Russian regional evolutions
Analysis of the comparative space–time trajectories of 79 subjects of the Russian Federation in 1995–2013 indicates an overall increase in inequality, and enables the classification of areas into two unequal groups. The first includes 80% of Russian regions with below-average gross regional product per capita (GRPPC). These regions have moved closer together, with most growing slower than average. Their development indicates a strong degree of pa…
Capturing gains by relocating global production networks
In 2008 a new notebook manufacturing cluster was established in Chongqing in western China. By 2013 it accounted for some 25% of world output by volume. Chongqing’s ability to attract this manufacturing supply chain was driven by several factors that permitted strategic coupling: the existence of complex networks of cooperation and economies external to the firm but internal to contemporary global production networks; changed conditions in southe…
City shrinkage in China
Analysis of the latest census data for 2000 and 2010 shows that 88 out of 336 Chinese municipalities suffered combinations of total, urban and hukou population loss. A general ordered logit model examines the ways manufacturing decline, services growth and demographic vitality interact in a specifically Chinese context of population control, contributing empirically and theoretically to studies of city shrinkage. Chinese experience shows that whi…
Networks of value, commodities and regions
The aim of this paper is to explore a theoretical framework that can assist in under-standing the extent to which the increased integration of macro-regional economies (such as the European and North American) and the global economy is leading to divergence and/or convergence in the pattern of economic activity and the distribution of value-added and wealth. In particular, the paper focuses on the extent to which changing divisions of labour, the…
Theories of Regulation
Neo-Schumpeterian, world system, and regulation approaches to the analysis of structural change in advanced capitalist societies are distinguished and the development of theories of regulation and their connection with Marx's conception of capitalism are outlined, A synthetic account of the structure of theories of regulation is presented and is used to discuss the development and the crisis of Fordism. The macroeconomic character of these theori…
Cities and Regions in the New Europe
Chinese perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a call for an open and inclusive model of sustainable international economic, political and cultural cooperation and development under the guiding principles of the peaceful coexistence of sovereign states, achieved through multiple types of increased connectivity and financed by new multilateral financial instruments. This article outlines the evolution of the BRI, its relationship to changing conditions…
Inclusive globalization
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a call for an open and inclusive (mutually beneficial) model of cooperative economic, political and cultural exchange (globalization) that draws on the deep-seated meanings of the ancient Silk Roads. While it reflects China’s rise as a global power, and its industrial redeployment, increased outward investment and need to diversify energy sources and routes, the BRI involves the establishment of a framewo…
Impacts on accessibility of China’s present and future HSR network
Uneven and combined development
Uneven and combined development. Regional Studies. The concept of uneven and combined development (U&CD) interprets dynamic historical change and comparative geographical differentiation in terms of the co-existence of tendencies towards differentiation and equalization of the conditions of production, consumption, distribution and exchange, deriving from capital accumulation and political multiplicity. U&CD entails a conception of the global sys…
Regional Inequality, Regimes of Accumulation and Economic Development in Contemporary Europe
Michael Dunford, Diane Perrons, Regional Inequality, Regimes of Accumulation and Economic Development in Contemporary Europe, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1994), pp. 163-182
Regional Disparities in the European Community
(1993). Regional Disparities in the European Community: Evidence from the REGIO Databank. Regional Studies: Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 727-743
Disparities in Employment, Productivity and Output in the EU
The aim of this paper is to develop a set of empirical and theoretical connections between geographies of inequality on the one hand and geographies of productivity and of the mobilization of human potential on the other. To this end it presents a brief account of the current map of regional inequality in the EU. Disparities in Gross Domestic Product per head are shown to depend on two elements: differences in productivity and differences in the …
Capital accumulation and regional development in France
City shrinkage in China
Analysis of the latest census data for 2000 and 2010 shows that 88 out of 336 Chinese municipalities suffered combinations of total, urban and hukou population loss. A general ordered logit model examines the ways manufacturing decline, services growth and demographic vitality interact in a specifically Chinese context of population control, contributing empirically and theoretically to studies of city shrinkage. Chinese experience shows that whi…
Winners and Losers
This article examines some of the main features and causes of the changing geography of inequality and unequal development in the European Union (EU). The main spatial inequalities in the EU and the wider Europe are outlined, as are some of the trends in regional inequality since the early 1960s and their relation to economic performance. Considerable emphasis is placed on evidence of the dysfunctionality of wide inequalities for economic develop…
State land policy, land markets and geographies of manufacturing
Towards global convergence
The financial crisis indicates the underlying bankruptcy of the last of a series of attempts to restore sustained growth in advanced countries since the end of the post-war Golden Age: Italian flexible specialization, Japanese and Rhine-style lean production, the new economy and Anglo-American financialization. Over the same period a number of emerging economies and in particular China have sustained high rates of growth. In the years to come, de…
Chinese and Development Assistance Committee (DAC) development cooperation and development finance
A comparison of Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and Chinese models of development cooperation and finance is indicative of whether or not the principles underling the Belt and Road Initiative differ significantly from those of the western-dominated liberal order. In spite of superficial similarities, the Chinese model rests on a different conception of international relationships: western models derive from an experience of colonialism and…
Developing Regional Strategies for Economic Success
Regional Futures
Capital, the State and Regional Development
Area development and policy
A series of significant recent trends in world development involve transformations taking place at multiple geographical scales. These transformations suggest that there are multiple pathways to development, that these pathways derive from the articulation and interdependence of governance structures/capacity and development models, and that these trends will lead to a radical reshaping of the international economic and political order. Our world…
Old Europe, New Europe and the USA
The collapse of Communism in Europe and the recent enlargement of the European Union have significantly refashioned the world. As one of three developed economic blocs (Europe, North America and East Asia) Europe has increased in size and yet faces internal divisions between old and new Europe. While having shared interests, these blocs are also rivals, as is most strikingly reflected in the struggle for markets and over the expansion of imperial…
Theorizing Regional Economic Performance and the Changing Territorial Division of Labour
DUNFORD M. (2003) Theorizing regional economic performance and the changing territorial division of labour, Reg. Studies 37 , 839-854. After identifying the general mechanisms underling the centripetal and centrifugal forces whose interplay shapes the relative performance of regional economies, a case is made for disaggregating macroeconomic indicators and examining the sectoral and occupational changes they conceal. Once regional performance is …
The Chinese Path to Common Prosperity
In China the idea of common prosperity dates back to 1953. After 1979 China chose to let some people and places get rich first to accelerate economic development, with Deng Xiaoping arguing that public property could prevent social polarization. The result was extraordinary sustained economic growth but at the expense of large increases in urban-rural, regional and social inequalities in income and wealth themselves associated with the growth of …
Spatial divisions of labour
Doreen Massey’s Spatial Divisions of Labour (hereafter SDL) was first published in 1984. A second edition appeared in 1995 with a new introduction and postface. The original volume is rightly consi
Industrial Districts, Magic Circles, and the Restructuring of the Italian Textiles and Clothing Chain
This article identifies the way in which a firm-centered, value-chain approach to studying the distinctive structure and evolution of the geography of the Italian textile and clothing industries (TCI) offers important insights that qualify the results of district-centered and commodity/value-chain research. Analyses of the functional profiles of textile and clothing companies and of the roles of design, distribution, and services help explain rec…
The restructuring of industrial space
Castells, M. 1975: Sociologie de l'espace industrielGendarme, R. 1976: L'analyse économique régionaleHolland, S. 1976: Capital versus the regionsHolland, S. 1976: The regional problemKeeble, D. 1976: Industrial location and planning in the United Kingdom
Capital accumulation and regional development in France
Regional policy and the crisis in the UK
The Arena of Capital
The Arena of Capital
Regional Development and the Local Community
Long waves of regional development
Capital, the State and Regional Development
Capital, the State and Regional Development
Theories of Regulation
Neo-Schumpeterian, world system, and regulation approaches to the analysis of structural change in advanced capitalist societies are distinguished and the development of theories of regulation and their connection with Marx's conception of capitalism are outlined, A synthetic account of the structure of theories of regulation is presented and is used to discuss the development and the crisis of Fordism. The macroeconomic character of these theori…
Regional Disparities in the European Community
(1993). Regional Disparities in the European Community: Evidence from the REGIO Databank. Regional Studies: Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 727-743
Cities and Regions in the New Europe
The Organization of Production and Territory
Winners and Losers
This article examines some of the main features and causes of the changing geography of inequality and unequal development in the European Union (EU). The main spatial inequalities in the EU and the wider Europe are outlined, as are some of the trends in regional inequality since the early 1960s and their relation to economic performance. Considerable emphasis is placed on evidence of the dysfunctionality of wide inequalities for economic develop…
Regional Inequality, Regimes of Accumulation and Economic Development in Contemporary Europe
Michael Dunford, Diane Perrons, Regional Inequality, Regimes of Accumulation and Economic Development in Contemporary Europe, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1994), pp. 163-182
Cities and Regions in the New Europe
Metropolitan Polarization, the North-South Divide and Socio-Spatial Inequality in Britain
Spatial inequalities have been a constant feature of capitalist development in Britain. Today there are two major macro-geographical divides. The first is between the Greater London metropolitan area and the rest of Britain. The second is a related division between North and South which assumed particular prominence after the inter-war depression when the industries of the old industrial heartland went into decline. Attention is paid first to a v…
Disparities in Employment, Productivity and Output in the EU
The aim of this paper is to develop a set of empirical and theoretical connections between geographies of inequality on the one hand and geographies of productivity and of the mobilization of human potential on the other. To this end it presents a brief account of the current map of regional inequality in the EU. Disparities in Gross Domestic Product per head are shown to depend on two elements: differences in productivity and differences in the …
Districts industriels
Cet article fait l'état de la recherche sur les districts industriels marshalliens et présente le débat autour de la notion de la spécialisation flexible en montrant ses limites. Les auteurs soulignent que le modèle du district n'est qu'un des modes possibles d'organisation économique et spatiale du monde développé, et ils mentionnent quelques recherches empiriques récentes aussi bien dans les pays développés que dans lé Tiers-Monde
The hour‐glass society
Alain Lipietz: La Societe en sablier: le partage du travail contre la dechirure sociale (The hour‐glass society: the sharing of work versus the disintegration of society). Editions la Decouverte, Paris, 1996
Developing Regional Strategies for Economic Success
Regional Futures
Networks of value, commodities and regions
The aim of this paper is to explore a theoretical framework that can assist in under-standing the extent to which the increased integration of macro-regional economies (such as the European and North American) and the global economy is leading to divergence and/or convergence in the pattern of economic activity and the distribution of value-added and wealth. In particular, the paper focuses on the extent to which changing divisions of labour, the…
Citations, authors and referees
Dunford M., Perrons D., Reilly B. and Bull R. (2002) Citations, authors and referees: Regional Studies, 1981–2002, Reg. Studies 36, 1055–1067. The aim of this paper is to provide information about who publishes in the journal, how frequently this work is cited, what share of papers submitted are accepted, how quickly decisions are taken, how referees perform and, in particular, how the journal has evolved. The data reviewed indicate that the flow…
Italian Regional Evolutions
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of Italy's territorial inequalities from 1952 to 1996 and to consider what the Italian record tells us about the utility of theories of convergence and divergence. After outlining the scale and nature of contemporary development gaps in Italy, the author explores the way these inequalities have changed, showing that convergence in the 1960s and early 1970s gave way to divergence, and identifying t…
Economics (58 obras) · Geography (49 obras) · Political science (44 obras) · Economic geography (41 obras) · Economic growth (25 obras) · China (23 obras) · Regional science (23 obras) · Sociology (23 obras) · Economy (20 obras) · Development economics (17 obras)