Call for presentation to PRSCO2022 online extended to May 31.

The deadline for registration for presentations at the PRSCO2022 Kyoto International Convention, to be held August 1-4, 2022 (online), has been extended to May 31.

The registration fee for making a presentation is 100 USD (OECD case) for regular members of the Japan Association of Regional Studies and 70 USD for student members.

For co-authors, discussants, and audience members, the registration fee is 50 USD (OECD case) for regular members and 35 USD for student members of the Japan Society of Regional Studies.

PRSCO2022 was scheduled to be held in Kyoto, but due to the Corona Disaster situation, it will be held online. In consideration of the time difference between Asia and the U.S., you may submit your first and second choices for presentation times from 6:00-9:00 a.m., 10:00-12:00 a.m., and 13:00-16:00 p.m. JST.

In addition to general presentations (20-minute presentations with 15-minute Q&A sessions), there will also be an Early Bird session, a 10-minute presentation with 5-minute comments for graduate students, and a Nurturing young Talent session as next generation fostering program for graduate students. Applications for Special Session are also being extended to May 31.

1) To register for a presentation, regional society members in your country must first register themselves online at https://sites.google.com/view/prsco2022/

2) If you wish to make a presentation, please enter the title of your presentation, abstract (200-250 words), keywords, and JEL code from the registration screen at Contribution after logging in by May 31.

3) After peer review by the Scientific Committee, full papers (6-8 pages) in the website format are due on June 30.

The abstracts will be compiled in the online Proceedings together with the program as pdf data.

If your paper has already been published or presented in your local language, you may present it in English with the source listed in the previous publisher, after consulting with us by e-mail, provided that you have obtained permission for secondary publication from the previous publisher and permission to translate the figures and tables for publication. These full papers will be shared with participants on the share drive, but will not be published as proceedings. Because this means that although some of the authors' previous work will be included and cited at a later date, new findings and data added through research and additional content will require a revision of the title, including the conclusion, so we encourage you to submit your paper to AJRSA as an original research paper. The maximum length of a full paper is 8 pages, and the maximum length of a full PRSCO 2022 paper is 14 pages or more to avoid multiple submissions and self-plagiarism.

Organizing Committee encourages all members of the PRSCO members to make presentations.

For inquiries or to apply for a special session, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  .

PRSCO2022 online conference Kyoto Conference Organizing Committee Chair Hidehiko Kanegae

We have issued the 52nd volume of Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, following the philosophy of the journal of accommodating papers with the diversity of disciplines within Regional Science.

The current issue opens with the paper titled “Subnational Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries: the cases of Ecuador and Uruguay” and authored by Moisés Obaco, Nicola Pontarollo y Rodrigo Mendieta. This paper studies deprivation dynamics at the subnational level, introducing a Local Multidimensional Poverty Index (LMPI) in Ecuador and Uruguay between the last two available censuses, 1990–2010 and 1996–2011, respectively. The authors construct the index at the municipal level using microdata from both counties. Subsequently, they explore spatial and temporal dynamics through a set of tools such including the salter graph, spatial statistics and a spatial transition matrix. The results indicate that compared to Ecuador, Uruguay was initially in a better position in terms of deprivation. However, Ecuador achieved a generalized reduction of the index during the period of analysis, reaching levels close to that of Uruguay.

The theory of fuzzy sets provides a referential framework for measuring poverty under a multidimensional approach. This theory replaces the poor or non-poor dichotomy, by the gradual belonging to the group of the poor. This is the starting point of the article from Diego F. García-Vélez and José Javier Núñez, and titled “An alternative approach to measure multidimensional poverty using fuzzy sets: spatial analysis for Ecuador”. The objective of the research is to propose an alternative method for measuring multidimensional poverty in Ecuador. Three poverty rates are developed using fuzzy sets and the capabilities approach, in addition, a spatial analysis of poverty is carried out at the provincial level. The main results show that public policies must be prioritized towards housing and work, and no spatial dependency or multidimensional poverty clusters are identified.

Víctor Manuel Bellido-Jiménez, Domingo Martín-Martín, and Isidoro Romero are the authors of the paper titled “Self-employment in immigrants and the survival of incubated businesses in Andalusia”. They investigate This paper investigates the existence of specific patterns of survival in the case of the businesses created by self-employed immigrants compared to those driven by national self-employed. The analysis uses a database made up of all the businesses incubated by public support services developed by the Andalucía Emprende Foundation (Ministry of Employment, Training and Self-employment of the Regional Government of Andalusia) in the period 2009-2014. The results show that the chances of survival of immigrant businesses are lower than that of national promoters even after controlling for territorial characteristics, the characteristics of the business projects and the personal characteristics of the self-employed. It is also observed that the educational level of promoters increases business survival, having a significantly larger effect in the case of the immigrant self-employed.

The next article is a case study focused in Ecuador and signed by Grace Carolina Guevara, Jonathan Rafael Quijia, José Fernando Ramírez and Oscar Omar Acero. In “Do the novelty and type of innovation affect the performance of firms? A case study for Ecuador” they measure the causal effect of innovation on firms’ productivity by distinguishing the type of innovation, namely, in products, in process, in organization and in marketing. To do so, an endogenous switching model is estimated using the Science, Technology and Innovation Activity Survey. The results indicate that the productivity loss is higher for innovating firms if they stop innovating than the productivity gain of non-innovating firms if they engage in innovation. The difference between the productivity losses and gains depends on the type of innovation.

Next, the article “Towards a model of territorial governance for a locally-based inclusive approach: the regional experience of Beterri-Buruntza”, signed by Andoni Zulaika, Víctor Sánchez and Felix Arrieta, evaluates the reform of the institutional structures of protection systems, aiming at reconcile the increased pressure on protection systems with their sustainability, but also to improve their efficiency and proximity to citizens. Recently, Gipuzkoa has promoted the revision of the territorial governance model to improve care for people in situations of exclusion and vulnerability. This article looks at the main limitations of the new regional governance model for improving social inclusion, identifying some lessons that can be extended to other territories that carry out similar processes. These should especially include the need for a clear public commitment and leadership, and a commitment to professional figures and structures of a county and/or local nature that coordinate resources and social agents.

Finally, Osvaldo Meloni authors the work “Feeding the Leviathan: political competition and soft budget constraints. Evidence from Argentine subnational districts”. This paper presents evidence of the influence of political competition on the behavior of fiscal policy in Argentine provinces from 1987 to 2015. Contrary to the predominant theory and empirical evidence from subnational districts the estimations of a dynamic panel data show that political competition is associated with increases in public outlays and changes in its composition. This finding is strongly related to the large vertical fiscal imbalances that characterize the Argentine fiscal federalism. He authors conjectures that governors use the additional low-cost spending power given by federal transfers to feed clientelistic networks, increase public employment and direct subsidies to constituencies, thus enhancing their chances to remain in office.

The volume also includes a work devoted to European Regional Policy, in this case a note, “Cohesion Policy in Europe", summarizing the highlights of the eighth cohesion report, on report on the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the European Union, which has recently come to light.

To contact Us and Submit Manuscripts:

Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The article will be sent through the portal Open Journal System (OJS) of the Spanish Repository of Science and Technology (RECYT): https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IR/login 

ISSN: 1695-7253     E-ISSN: 2340-2717

The Regional Science Policy and Practice (RSPP) Conference on Sustainable Regional Development in Central Asia mobilizes members of the Editorial Team of the journal and the Regional Science Association International and encourages to participate in this Central Asian conference and submit a paper to a special issue of the journal.
 
The conference on Sustainable Regional Development in Central Asia aims to bring together international speakers,  and leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars across Central Asia to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Regional Science and Sustainable Regional Development. It also serves as an interdisciplinary platform to present and discuss the most recent developments, innovations, regional features and needs as well as existing challenges and practical solutions adopted in the fields of Sustainable Regional Development in Central Asia. 

Call for Contributions
Prospective authors are kindly invited to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts and papers. Also, high-quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, or theoretical work in all areas of Sustainable Regional Development are encouraged for presentation at the conference.
 
Conference Proceedings and RSPP publications
All submitted conference papers will be published first as RSPP Working papers. After a peer-review process, the ones that are accepted for publication in RSPP will be compiled as a Special Issue of RSPP that is indexed in the Scopus and other official index databases.

More information at: https://rsppconference2022.weebly.com/

***REMINDER: deadline: May 10***

Dear Colleagues,

Based on the success of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) session at the 2022 American Economic Association (AEA) meeting, the organizing committee is now inviting submissions of abstracts (1-3 pages) to be considered for presentation at the NARSC session at the 2023 AEA session. 

Considering the significant and ongoing disruptions to supply chains both globally and domestically, the theme of the 2023 session will be “supply-chain disruption.” All techniques and applications that focus on this theme are highly encouraged. 

If interested, please submit your detailed abstract (1-3 pages), including authors’ name(s), affiliation(s) and contact information to Kelsey McDaid at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 10, 2022. 

There is no fee for submission. A fee is to be paid to AEA once your paper is selected. The 2023 AEA meeting will take place in-person in New Orleans, LA, Jan. 6-8 2023: https://www.aeaweb.org/

We look forward to seeing you at the second AEA-NARSC session!

With best regards,

Sandy Dall’erba, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Christa Court, University of Florida

Bill Ridley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

John Sporing, North American Regional Science Council (NARSC)

Dear PRSCO councilors and friends,

I am so happy to inform you that updated information about PRSCO 2022.

Second Announcement, PRSCO online conference 2022 Kyoto origin, Japan, on 1-4, August 2022.

More information: https://sites.google.com/view/prsco2022/

Extended deadline for submission of abstracts: May 15, 2022 (JST).

Open for the registration and abstract submission.

https://www.conftool.org/prsco2022/

Kind regards,

Soushi Suzuki

PRSCO Executive Secretary

Hokkai-Gakuen University

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 209-210 | First Published:28 April 2022

INTRODUCTION

Spatial development and inequalities in the Global South

Abdul Shaban

Pages: 211-214 | First Published:28 April 2022

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Indo‐ASEAN Trade Complementarity and Favourability with Transition from Look East to Act East Policy: Evidence from Northeastern States of India

Tiken Das, Pradyut Guha

Pages: 215-243 | First Published:04 August 2021

Does the trade‐led growth hypothesis exist for South Asia? A pooled mean group estimation

Md. Saiful Islam

Pages: 244-257 | First Published:28 September 2021

Interdependencies between spatial planning and the mining laissez‐passer in cities: Policy analysis of the case of Ecuador

Karl-Heinz Gaudry, Danilo Ibarra, Carla Carabajo, Katty Marin

Pages: 258-278 | First Published:03 September 2021

Situating children’s lives in coastal cities: Prospects and challenges in urban planning in five Southeast Asian cities

Aireen Grace Andal

Pages: 279-292 | First Published:13 October 2021

Open Access

Young people’s perspectives of inequitable urban change in Lebanese towns affected by mass displacement

Hannah Sender

Pages: 293-306 | First Published:04 November 2021

Open Access

Detecting spatial economic clusters using kernel density and global and local Moran's I analysis in Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality, South Africa

Koech Cheruiyot

Pages: 307-327 | First Published:16 March 2022

Global advantage of Bangalore as a location choice for knowledge‐based industries in India

Arun Natarajan Hariharan, Arindam Biswas

Pages: 328-351 | First Published:08 October 2021

Do globalization progress and sectoral growth shifts affect income inequality? An exploratory analysis from India

Deepak Kumar Behera, Viswanathan Pozhamkandath Karthiayani

Pages: 352-375 | First Published:18 November 2021

Urban poverty and vulnerability in global South: An alternative multidimensional framework for measurement and targeting

Anita Rath

Pages: 376-395 | First Published:23 January 2022

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) poverty in India: A district‐level geospatial assessment

Pritam Ghosh, Moslem Hossain, Asraful Alam

Pages: 396-416 | First Published:02 September 2021

The effect of climate change and energy shocks on food security in Iran's provinces

Navid Kargar Dehbidi, Mansour Zibaei, Mohammad Hassan Tarazkar

Pages: 417-437 | First Published:25 February 2022

Economic Resilience of City‐Regions in Southern Africa: An Exploratory Study of Zimbabwe

Tazviona Richman Gambe, Hermanus Stephanus Geyer, Anele Horn

Pages: 438-455 | First Published:21 November 2021

Open Access

The challenge of developing special economic zones in Africa: Evidence and lessons learnt

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Federico Bartalucci, Susanne A. Frick, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Richard Bolwijn

Pages: 456-481 | First Published:08 April 2022

BOOK REVIEW

The grand pattern of development and the transition of institutions, Edited by Martin Paldam, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Online ISBN:9781009025898. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025898

Luca Storti

Pages: 482-484 | First Published:06 February 2022

Call for Papers - Special Issue on ‘Modelling Pandemic Impacts in Space’

Guest Editors

Pui-Hang Wong, UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University
Karima Kourtit, CAROU, Open University of the Netherlands
Peter Nijkamp, CAROU, Open University of the Netherlands

Scope and aims

Two years have passed since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. As we are gradually adapted to the new normal, it is time to reflect on the longer-term impacts of the pandemic to the economy and society. While some people consider the pandemic a game changer, which fundamentally changes how society functions and people behave, some contend that its impacts are transitory.

The purpose of this special issue of LSRS is to encourage scholars to examine and re-examine various impacts of pandemics using quantitative data from an urban or regional perspective. Similar to many other pandemics, COVID-19 has a clear regional dimension. At the regional scale, some countries (e.g., the US and Italy) and regions were hit harder than the others. Cities were at the forefronts of the health crisis. Many cities enforced lockdown, but with various levels of success. What might possibly explain the variations in the spread and impacts of the pandemic across space? Why were some places relatively more resilient than the others? What are the geographical determinants of risk and resilience? How did governments react to the crisis and what are their impact and effectiveness? How did people interact with the built environment to drive the pandemic dynamics? The primary goal of the special issue of LSRS is to develop an improved understanding on the uneven impacts of pandemics and policies in space.  

This special issue welcomes contributions that employ newly available data, causal designs (e.g., experiments), or statistical techniques (e.g., spatial econometrics, GIS, AI, machine learning, data analytics and big data) to scrutinize, model, explain, evaluate and predict pandemics or their economic, social, political and health impact at various geographical scales.
 

Topics

The objective of this special issue is to increase our understanding of how pandemics evolve and affect human and society across space by adopting an evidence-based approach. The focus is not limited to COVID-19 but includes other pandemics such as influenza, AIDS, SARS and Ebola. In view of this objective, this special issue is particularly interested in submissions that use a quantitative approach to model and evaluate various aspects of a pandemic — their spread, impacts and prevention — with a clear urban or regional element in analysis. This special issue welcomes contributions that address in particular the following (or other related) topics:

• Impacts on physical and mental health and subjective wellbeing
• Evaluations of lockdown, social distancing and testing policy 
• Spatial-temporal diffusion of diseases
• Spatial resilience and recovery
• Health system resilience
• Cultural groups and exposure to infection diseases
• Spatial determinants of health inequality
• Vaccination disparity in space
• Urban mobility during and after pandemics 
• Use and perception of urban space during and after pandemics
• Smart city and pandemics

Timeline and Guideline

• The submission deadline is September 15, 2022. Final, full-length papers need to be submitted through the journal portal. 
• The submission guideline of LSRS can found at https://www.springer.com/journal/12076/submission-guidelines. Following the “letter” format, all contributions should have maximum 5000 words, including references but excluding tables and figures. 
• All submissions will undergo the usual peer review process.

Corresponding guest editor

Pui-Hang Wong (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

https://www.springer.com/journal/12076/updates/20304296