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Rebalancing Research on World Cities: Mauritius as a Gateway to Sub-Saharan Africa

In: Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Sören Scholvin

    (Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography, University of Hanover)

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This chapter seeks to rebalance research on world cities, which suffers from a bias towards the Global North in theory building. For this purpose, the author advances the concept of ‘gateway cities’. In contrast to the world city approach, the gateway one addresses the global and regional interlinking of cities along five dimensions: transport and logistics, industrial processing, corporate control, service provision and knowledge generation. It allows us to incorporate what can be learnt from cases in the Global South into our understanding of cities in economic processes—or, more narrowly, global value chains. The author applies the gateway concept to Mauritius, showing that the island state serves as a gateway to sub-Saharan Africa in the oil and gas sector, in particular for logistics, corporate control and service provision.

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  • Sören Scholvin, 2019. "Rebalancing Research on World Cities: Mauritius as a Gateway to Sub-Saharan Africa," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Sören Scholvin & Anthony Black & Javier Revilla Diez & Ivan Turok (ed.), Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa, pages 205-220, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-06206-4_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-06206-4_13
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