While the economic benefits of urban agglomeration are well-documented, its environmental consequences remain theoretically underexplored. This study fills this gap by investigating how urban ...

Copper is present in ores in the form of carbonates, sulfates, silicates, oxides and hydroxides with the most common minerals being malachite, azurite, cuprite, chrysocolla and tenorite. Copper is ...

Can urban areas grow too much? The answer is subject to people’s lifestyle preference, based on where they want to live and what tradeoffs in time and money they’ll accept. But according to one theory ...

Manufacturing and service industries tend to concentrate in cities and industrial clusters. In Vietnam, for example, large firms are surrounded by literally tens of thousands of small enterprises in ...

Fixed and sunk costs are widely accepted as important determinants of export behaviour. This column argues that such costs may be shared by agglomerated collections of firms, and presents evidence of ...

Agglomeration refers to the process of enlargement of particle sizes where fine powder particles are coupled to form large, permanent masses wherein original particles can still be identified. Such ...

Agglomeration's impact on product quality has received much less attention than its impact on productivity, despite the importance of quality as a precondition for economic development. This column ...