Spatial Inequality and Development
Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 February 2005
- ISBN 9780199278633
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages440 pages
- Size 241x163x29 mm
- Weight 808 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures and tables 0
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Short description:
This is a well-researched introduction to an area of growing analytical and policy importance: spatial and regional inequality, which can create tension and instability in developing and transition economies. Drawing on data from 25 countries from around the world, it answers the following key questions: What exactly is spatial inequality? Why does it matter? And what should be the policy response to it?
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What exactly is spatial inequality? Why does it matter? And what should be the policy response to it? These questions have become important in recent years as the spatial dimensions of inequality have begun to attract considerable policy interest. In China, Russia, India, Mexico, and South Africa, as well as most other developing and transition economies, spatial and regional inequality - of economic activity, incomes, and social indicators - is on the increase.
Spatial inequality is a dimension of overall inequality, but it has added significance when spatial and regional divisions align with political and ethnic tensions to undermine social and political stability. Also important in the policy debate is a perceived sense that increasing internal spatial inequality is related to greater openness of economies, and to globalization in general.
Despite these important concerns, there is remarkably little systematic documentation of what has happened to spatial and regional inequality over the last twenty years. Correspondingly, there is insufficient understanding of the determinants of internal spatial inequality.
This volume attempts to answer the questions posed above, drawing on data from twenty-five countries from all regions of the world. They bring together perspectives and expertise in development economics and in economic geography and form a well-researched introduction to an area of growing analytical and policy importance.
This book, edited by two internationally recognized leaders in development economics and economic geography ... is highly recommended to scholars within peace research - especially those working on distributional issues and violent conflict.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Regional Output Differences in International Perspective
Are Neighbors Equal? Estimating Local Inequality in Three Developing Countries
Market Size, Linkages and Productivity: A Study of Japanese Regions
Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China
Opening the Convergence Black Box: Measurement Problems and Demographic Aspects
Adverse Geography and Differences in Welfare in Peru
How Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Indonesia, 1984-1999
Reforms, Remoteness and Risk in Africa: Understanding Inequality and Poverty During the 1990s
Economic Polarization Through Trade: Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico
International Trade, Location and Wage inequality in China
Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African Countries
Regional Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
Quo Vadis: Inequality and Poverty Dynamics Across Russian Regions
