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Truth, trust and market transactions: What do we know?

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John Humphrey and Hubert Schmitz have recently made an important contribution to the literature on trust and economic transactions between firms. Unfortunately, the evidence that high levels of societal trust contribute significantly to economic growth is far less reliable than they suggest. We...

1 January 1999

Journal Article

Clustering and Industrialization: Introduction

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The aim of this introductory article is fourfold. First, it traces briefly the trajectory of the debate on industrial clusters in developing countries. Second, it identifies what we - as editors - consider the key issues in this debate. Third, it highlights how the contributors to this Special...

Khalid Nadvi

1 January 1999

Journal Article

Collective Efficiency and Increasing Returns

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Recent research on industrial clusters in developing countries has unearthed some notable success stories of small local enterprises growing fast and competing in export markets. This paper focuses on some conceptual and theoretical points which help to explain them. The discussion is conducted...

1 January 1999

Book

Complex Political Emergencies and the State

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It is argued that an understanding of the role and nature of the state and of processes of state collapse are vital for understanding Complex Political Emergencies for various practical reasons and for drawing general lessons from particular experiences: CPEs are often rooted in prior state...

1 January 1999

Journal Article

From Ascribed to Earned Trust in Exporting Clusters

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This paper is concerned with the role of trust in export manufacturing. It asks how trust has developed in two industrial clusters which are located in developing countries and export most of their output to North America and Europe. The main conclusion is that trust was based initially on...

1 January 1999

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