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This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. The analysis compares the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare for mineral-rich districts, pre- and post-accession, to the corresponding changes in districts without any mineral endowment. Using this exogenous variation, the paper shows that over 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price boom increased welfare as measured by spatial Sen Index but were insignificant for local economic growth, migration, and spatial inequality. The findings suggest that policy needs to do more to improve the local benefits of positive external shocks (such as China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will automatically benefit from higher national growth.

Commodity Boom --- Local Development --- Mining --- Wto;World Trade Organisation

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"Exploring and updating the controversial debates about the relationship between democracy and development, this Research Handbook provides clarification on the complex and nuanced interlinkages between political regime type and socio-economic development. Distinguished scholars examine a broad range of issues from multidisciplinary perspectives across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Analysing the relationship between political regime types, including varieties of democracies and autocracies, and broader development indicators, chapters cover economic growth, poverty and human development, inequality, corruption, conflict, human rights, and environmental sustainability. The Research Handbook examines longstanding and unresolved debates in the field over the past 60 years, as well as investigating contemporary issues of rising global inequalities, the resurgence of authoritarian populism, and the crisis of liberal democracy. Thorough and invigorating, this will be an essential read for social science scholars and students, particularly those studying sociology, politics, economics and global development studies. Policy makers and government officials dealing with foreign affairs and international development will appreciate the detailed case studies the Research Handbook offers"--

Economic development --- Economic development --- Democracy --- Decentralization reforms --- Morocco --- Political Economy --- Local development --- Governance --- Moroccan --- Deconcentration reforms --- Democracy --- Human Development --- Global inequalities --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Decentralization reforms --- Morocco --- Political Economy --- Local development --- Governance --- Moroccan --- Deconcentration reforms --- Democracy --- Human Development --- Global inequalities

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This Special Issue contains articles include, but not limited to, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches to the following topics: Monitoring of carrying capacity and mechanisms for managing tourist flows in rural areas; Systems and tools to measure the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of rural tourism; Integration between public tourism policies and private strategies in the promotion and implementation of sustainable practices; Policies for promoting public participation in the planning and development of sustainable rural tourism; The impacts of tourism on traditional agricultural activities; Identity enhancement of the territory and its productions; "Good practices" in the implementation of rural tourism sustainability.

rural revitalization --- rural tourism --- heritage preservation --- cinema --- filmic discourses --- rural areas --- landscapes --- gendered interpretation --- territorial identity --- Camino de Santiago --- sustainability --- landscape --- brand equity --- organic agriculture --- peripheral areas --- local development --- heritagisation --- sustainable rural tourism --- stakeholders --- disaffected citizens --- sustainable development --- Triple Bottom Line --- rural development --- agriculture --- sustainability matrix --- cultural ecosystem services --- ecosystem --- Nemunas Delta --- Curonian Lagoon --- permaculture --- downshifting --- development --- local resources --- marginal areas --- National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI --- Strategia Nazionale per le Aree Interne) --- sustainable local development --- experiential tourism --- Romania --- case study --- territorial valorization --- rural hospitality services --- Transylvania --- sport --- tourism --- “borgo” --- tourism development --- rural area --- sustainable tourism --- periurban --- multifunctional agriculture --- periurban parks --- n/a --- "borgo"