Sentence examples for regional agglomerations from inspiring English sources

The Chinese government hopes that it will emerge as an economic powerhouse along the lines of regional agglomerations of cities in the Yangtze River and Pearl River Delta regions.

According to fragmentation theory, the core of a production network is concentrated in regional agglomerations, given the reduced costs incurred in shorter distance transport freights, reduced lead time, and the possibility of faster coordination for the whole network (Harrigan and Venables 2004; Kimura et al. 2007).

Industrial agglomeration [0/1] – Indicator specifying whether firms belong to a regional industrial agglomeration (=1), or not (=0).

This policy is known to increase the productivity of regional economies through agglomeration economies, as well as environmental efficiency [2, 37].

For Quebec: the province was divided geographically by crossing fifteen health areas with four urban density classes (the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, regional capitals, small urban agglomerations, and the rural sector).

We exploit data from the US Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level.

She has lost control of Congress to the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), a centrist agglomeration of regional political barons that is the PT's main coalition partner.

The resulting scandal caused Lula to lose interest in difficult tax and labour-law reforms in his second term and to forge an alliance with the PMDB, an agglomeration of regional barons with a voracious appetite for patronage and pork.Even so, over the past two decades Latin America's politics have become more inclusive.

Despite the importance of industry co-agglomerations in regional growth, few studies examine them in regional geographic space.

"Small scale, spontaneous dispersion" is the overall rural industrial land use pattern in China, and the spatial patterns between the two types of rural industrial land are quite different: the pattern "dispersion inside rural settlements" is usually observed in RI-land, while "agglomeration around regional central towns" and "linear sprawl" are common on NI-land.

Production networks, in particular the machinery ones, are constituted mainly of geographical agglomerations that form regional blocs of production.