Reshaping economic geography
"Places do well when they promote transformations along the dimensions of economic geography: higher densities as cities grow; shorter distances as workers and businesses migrate closer to density; and fewer divisions as nations lower their economic borders and enter world markets to take advan...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
World Bank
2009
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| Series: | World development report
2009 |
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Table of Contents:
- Geography in motion: the report at a glance
- density, distance, and division
- Overview
- Navigating this report
- Geography in motion: overcoming distance in North America
- pt. 1 . Seeing development in 3-D. Density ; Distance ; Division
- Geography in motion: overcoming division in Western Europe
- pt. 2. Shaping economic geography. Scale economies and agglomeration ; Factor mobility and migration ; Transport costs and specialization
- Geography in motion: distance and division in East Asia
- pt. 3. Reframing the policy debates. Concentration without congestion: policies for an inclusive urbanization ; Unity, not uniformity: effective approaches to territorial development ; Winners without borders: integrating poor countries with world markets
- Geography in motion: density, distance, and division in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Selected indicators
- Selected world development indicators.