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Geography Of Micro-States: Main Arising Issues

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  • Sidiropoulos George

    (Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece)

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News is often interspersed with reports from small islands. Reference is often made to them due to their small size, or due to their administrative autonomy or financial regime; usually attracting the common interest. Actually, what are the so-called microstates, virtual lands, unrecognized state entities, or ephemeral states? Their de facto distance from the centers of socio-economic developments contributes to the conservation of both their traditional social web and their natural environment, but at the same time, it deprives them the opportunities to keep in pace with the modern developments and renders them under the status of isolation. On the one hand, the barrier resulting from natural obstacles acts like a filter that bars the introduction of opportunistic innovations, and on the other hand geographical proximity would make contact with progress feasible. In other words, situation acts as an immune system which secures the better health of microstates.

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  • Sidiropoulos George, 2009. "Geography Of Micro-States: Main Arising Issues," Regional Science Inquiry, Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists, vol. 1(1), pages 45-57, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:hrs:journl:v:1:y:2009:i:1:p:45-57
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    Keywords

    Microstate; micronation; small economies; insular space; quasi-state; sovereignty; development;
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    JEL classification:

    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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