By Neil Coe, Philip Kelly, Henry W. C. Yeung
Economic Geography is a accomplished advent to this turning out to be box, supplying scholars with a colourful and exact geographical perception into the economy.
- Contrasts a distinctively geographical strategy with renowned conceptions and assumptions in economics and administration studies
- Debates a variety of themes together with monetary discourses, asymmetric improvement, commodity chains, expertise and agglomeration, the commodification of nature, states, transnational companies, labour, intake, financial cultures, gender, and ethnic economies
- Is richly illustrated with examples, vignettes, and case reports drawn from numerous sectors round the world
- Is written in a transparent, attractive and full of life style
- Includes a wealthy array of pictures, figures, textual content containers, pattern essay questions and annotated lists of additional reading
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The historical roots of Niger's economy (and, indeed, its definition as a national entity) in the French colonial period that ended in 1960 have created an economy and a set of dependent interna tional linkages that continue to the present. In 2004, 41 per cent of the coun try's exports went to France. In the same year, the only direct long-haul flight out of the airport in the capital city Niamey went to Paris. Another dimension of Niger's positioning in international flows is its trade balance.
None of them recognize the significance of Niger's connections and relationships with the outside world. The historical roots of Niger's economy (and, indeed, its definition as a national entity) in the French colonial period that ended in 1960 have created an economy and a set of dependent interna tional linkages that continue to the present. In 2004, 41 per cent of the coun try's exports went to France. In the same year, the only direct long-haul flight out of the airport in the capital city Niamey went to Paris.
For more on this unfolding crisis we're joined by Christopher Barrett, Professor of Economics and Management at Cornell University, and co-director of Cornell's African Food Security and Natural Resources Management Program. Professor Barrett, welcome. What would you say is the root of this hunger crisis in Niger? Christopher Barrett: Well, the root is chronic poverty, Margaret. There's been, as your correspondent just mentioned, a bit of a shock over the past year, low rains, a locust infestation, all of which knocked the harvest down.