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Poor Places, Thriving People : How the Middle East and North Africa Can Rise Above Spatial Disparities

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-19T09:02:28Z
dc.date.available2012-03-19T09:02:28Z
dc.date.issued2011-01-10
dc.description.abstractThe main messages of poor places, thriving people: how the Middle East and North Africa can rise above spatial disparities can be summarized in four words: people, connections, clusters, and institutions. This report shows how smart investments and policies in transport can connect poor places to the dynamic economies of their rich neighbors. There is also a wide open field of opportunity for telecommunications to bring electronic proximity to lagging areas. Many countries have spent huge sums on subsidies to entice investors to lagging areas-usually without any sustainable impact. This report recommends that governments turn their efforts toward the new approach to local economic development, which is gaining ground around the world, and is based on economic clusters, local competitive advantage, private initiative, and public-private dialogue. The report describes the state-of-play in territorial planning, public financial management, targeted programs, deconcentration, and decentralization, and it sketches some emerging lessons. This report combines the insights of specialists in the majority of the World Bank's key sectors: agriculture, development economics, education, health, poverty analysis, social protection, and transport. It is the report's modest aim, if not to offer a single formula for reducing spatial disparities, at least to propose a range of policy options that the region's leaders can reflect on in the light of their national objectives.en
dc.description.abstractLe prรฉsent document est un rรฉsumรฉ du Rapport 2010 de la Banque mondiale sur le dรฉveloppement de la rรฉgion Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord, qui a pour thรจme les disparitรฉs spatiales. Les dirigeants des pays de la rรฉgion Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord (MENA) sont prรฉoccupรฉs par lโ€™รฉcart de dรฉveloppement entre les zones avancรฉes et celles qui sont ร  la traรฎne. Un dรฉveloppement inรฉgalement rรฉparti dans lโ€™espace pourrait en effet รชtre interprรฉtรฉ comme un รฉchec de la justice รฉconomique ou un manquement au contrat social entre gouvernants et gouvernรฉs, et la migration se traduire par un mรฉcontentement des populations urbaines ou par une modification des rapports politiques et sociaux. Mais les autoritรฉs des pays MENA ont une autre prรฉoccupation qui nโ€™est pas moins urgente. Les taux de chรดmage dans la rรฉgion sont au moins deux fois plus รฉlevรฉs en moyenne que ceux de lโ€™ensemble des pays ร  revenu intermรฉdiaire, toutes rรฉgions confondues. La solution au problรจme des disparitรฉs spatiales passe par lโ€™analyse minutieuse du contexte local et la mise en ล“uvre de politiques adaptรฉes aux caractรฉristiques de chaque rรฉgion en retard. La prรฉsente รฉtude examine trois trains de mesures qui sโ€™inspirent du Rapport sur le dรฉveloppement dans le monde 2009 : Le premier train de mesures vise ร  uniformiser les rรจgles du jeu pour promouvoir le dรฉveloppement des rรฉgions dรฉfavorisรฉes en facilitant lโ€™accรจs aux services sociaux et en amรฉliorant le cadre de lโ€™activitรฉ รฉconomique. Le deuxiรจme train de mesures est destinรฉ ร  relier les zones en retard aux zones avancรฉes. Le troisiรจme train de mesures vise ร  faciliter un dรฉveloppement รฉconomique rรฉgional en grappes, sans recourir ร  des subventions. Lโ€™objectif est ici dโ€™encourager la croissance รฉconomique locale pour rรฉduire les disparitรฉs gรฉographiques.fr
dc.identifierhttp://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000356161_20110117053434
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/978-0-8213-8321-6
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-8213-8321-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/2255
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMENA Development Report
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectACCOUNTING
dc.subjectACCOUNTING PRACTICES
dc.subjectACCOUNTING STANDARDS
dc.subjectADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectATM
dc.subjectATM CARD
dc.subjectBANK BRANCHES
dc.subjectBASIC
dc.subjectBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectCENTRAL BANKS
dc.subjectCOMMERCIAL BANKS
dc.subjectCOMMERCIALIZATION
dc.subjectCOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
dc.subjectCOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectCOMMUNITIES
dc.subjectCOMPUTERIZATION
dc.subjectCREDIT CARDS
dc.subjectCREDIT PRODUCTS
dc.subjectDATABASE MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectDEFICITS
dc.subjectDEPOSIT MARKET
dc.subjectDEPOSITORS
dc.subjectDEPOSITS
dc.subjectDIGITAL
dc.subjectDIGITAL DIVIDE
dc.subjectE-GOVERNMENT
dc.subjectE-LEARNING
dc.subjectE-MAIL
dc.subjectEGOVERNMENT
dc.subjectFINANCIAL INSTITUTION
dc.subjectFINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectFINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
dc.subjectFINANCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS
dc.subjectFINANCIAL SERVICES
dc.subjectFINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
dc.subjectFIXED ASSET
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINFORMATION SERVICES
dc.subjectINSURANCE
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL MAIL
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL REMITTANCES
dc.subjectLATIN AMERICAN
dc.subjectLEARNING
dc.subjectLEGAL FRAMEWORK
dc.subjectLETTER CARRIERS
dc.subjectLIQUIDITY
dc.subjectMAIL BUSINESS
dc.subjectMAIL CARRIER
dc.subjectMAIL CARRIERS
dc.subjectMAIL FLOW
dc.subjectMAIL FLOWS
dc.subjectMAIL HANDLING
dc.subjectMAIL ITEMS
dc.subjectMAIL PROCESSING
dc.subjectMAIL SERVICE
dc.subjectMAIL SERVICES
dc.subjectMAIL VOLUME
dc.subjectMAIL VOLUMES
dc.subjectMANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
dc.subjectMARKETING
dc.subjectMICROFINANCE
dc.subjectMIDDLE EAST
dc.subjectMIGRATION
dc.subjectMONEY TRANSFER
dc.subjectMONEY TRANSFER PRODUCTS
dc.subjectMONEY TRANSFER SERVICES
dc.subjectMONEY TRANSFERS
dc.subjectMONEY TRANSMISSION
dc.subjectNATIONAL POSTAL
dc.subjectNATIONAL POSTAL OPERATOR
dc.subjectNATIONAL POSTAL OPERATORS
dc.subjectNEW TECHNOLOGIES
dc.subjectNEW TECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectNORTH AFRICA
dc.subjectNUMBER OF POST OFFICES
dc.subjectOUTSOURCING
dc.subjectPACKAGES
dc.subjectPARCELS
dc.subjectPAYMENT SERVICES
dc.subjectPAYMENT SYSTEMS
dc.subjectPAYMENTS INSTRUMENTS
dc.subjectPENSIONS
dc.subjectPOST
dc.subjectPOST OFFICE
dc.subjectPOST OFFICE SAVINGS
dc.subjectPOST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS
dc.subjectPOST OFFICES
dc.subjectPOSTAL
dc.subjectPOSTAL ADMINISTRATIONS
dc.subjectPOSTAL AGENTS
dc.subjectPOSTAL BANK
dc.subjectPOSTAL BANKS
dc.subjectPOSTAL CHECKING
dc.subjectPOSTAL COUNTERS
dc.subjectPOSTAL EMPLOYEE
dc.subjectPOSTAL FINANCIAL SERVICES
dc.subjectPOSTAL INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectPOSTAL MAIL
dc.subjectPOSTAL MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectPOSTAL MARKET
dc.subjectPOSTAL MARKETS
dc.subjectPOSTAL NETWORK
dc.subjectPOSTAL NETWORKS
dc.subjectPOSTAL OFFICES
dc.subjectPOSTAL OPERATIONS
dc.subjectPOSTAL OPERATOR
dc.subjectPOSTAL OPERATORS
dc.subjectPOSTAL ORGANIZATIONS
dc.subjectPOSTAL POLICY
dc.subjectPOSTAL REFORM
dc.subjectPOSTAL REVENUES
dc.subjectPOSTAL SAVINGS
dc.subjectPOSTAL SECTOR REFORM
dc.subjectPOSTAL SERVICE
dc.subjectPOSTAL SERVICES
dc.subjectPOSTAL STAFF
dc.subjectPOSTS
dc.subjectPRIVATE OPERATORS
dc.subjectPRIVATIZATION
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectPROFITABILITY
dc.subjectPROGRAMS
dc.subjectPUBLIC AGENCIES
dc.subjectPUBLIC POSTAL SECTOR
dc.subjectPUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subjectQUALITY OF SERVICE
dc.subjectREMITTANCE SERVICES
dc.subjectREMITTANCES FOR DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectREMITTANCES ยท PRODUCT
dc.subjectREMOTE POST OFFICES
dc.subjectRURAL POST OFFICES
dc.subjectSAVINGS ACCOUNTS
dc.subjectSAVINGS BANKS
dc.subjectSAVINGS MOBILIZATION
dc.subjectSUBSIDIARIES
dc.subjectTELECOMMUNICATION
dc.subjectTELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES
dc.subjectTELECOMMUNICATIONS
dc.subjectTRADITIONAL MAIL
dc.subjectTRANSPORT
dc.subjectUNIVERSAL POSTAL
dc.subjectUNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION
dc.subjectUNIVERSAL SERVICE
dc.subjectUNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATION
dc.subjectUPU
dc.subjectVOLUME OF MAIL
dc.subjectVOLUMES OF MAIL
dc.subjectWORLDWIDE POSTAL NETWORK
dc.titlePoor Places, Thriving People : How the Middle East and North Africa Can Rise Above Spatial Disparitiesen
dc.titleLieux pauvres, populations prospรจres : Comment le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord peuvent surmonter les disparitรฉs spatiales fr
dc.title.alternativeLieux pauvres, populations prospรจres : comment le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord peuvent surmonter les disparitรฉs spatiales - vue d'ensemblefr
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaJobs
okr.date.disclosure2011-01-17
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Publication
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Publication
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okr.globalpracticeMacroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpracticeTransport and ICT
okr.globalpracticeFinance and Markets
okr.globalpracticeFinance and Markets
okr.globalpracticeTrade and Competitiveness
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/978-0-8213-8321-6
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum13553081
okr.identifier.report58997
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okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeMiddle East and North Africa
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::ICT Policy and Strategies
okr.topicTechnology Industry
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::Postal Services
okr.topicFinance and Financial Sector Development::Banks & Banking Reform
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Remittances
okr.topicIndustry
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