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Brings together the analytical perspectives of development economics and the new economic geography Addresses a problem of growing policy importance that has been neglected to date Edited by internationally recognized leaders in development economics and the new economic geography .
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.
Readership: Academic, researchers, and students in development economics and geography, especially those working on distribution and inequality; policy makers and public and private development agencies.
Contents
Part I. Introduction
1. Spatial Inequality and Development
Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables
Part II. Measurement of Spatial Inequality
2. Regional Output Differences in International Perspective
Bettina Aten and Alan Heston
3. Are Neighbours Equal? Estimating Local Inequality in Three Developing Countries
Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, Berk Özler, and Ken Simler
4. Opening the Convergence Black Box: Measurement Problems and Demographic Aspects
Carlos Azzoni, Naercio Menezes-Filho, and Tatiane Menezes
Part III. Location, Externalities, and Unequal Development
5. Adverse Geography and Differences in Welfare in Peru
Javier Escobal and Mximo Torero
6. Market Size, Linkages, and Productivity: A Study of Japanese Regions
Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein
7. Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China
Martin Ravallion Part V. Growth and Poverty Reduction--The Regional Linkage
8. How Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Indonesia, 1984-99
Jed Friedman
9. Reforms, Remoteness, and Risk in Africa: Understanding Inequality and Poverty during the 1990s
Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery, and Stefano Paternostro
Part VI. Trade, Wages, and Regional Inequality
10. Economic Polarization Through Trade: Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Javier Snchez-Reaza
11. International Trade, Location, and Wage Inequality in China
Songhua Lin
12. Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African Countries
Dirk Willem te Velde and Oliver Morrissey
Part VII. Spatial Inequality During Transition
13. Regional Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
Michael Förster, David Jesuit, and Timothy Smeeding
14. Quo Vadis? Inequality and Poverty Dynamics Across Russian Regions
Ruslan Yemtsov