dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2012-04-06T19:46:30Z
dc.date.available	2012-04-06T19:46:30Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.description.abstract	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 advantage of scale and trade in specialized products. World Development Report 2009 concludes that the transformations along these three dimensions density, distance, and division are essential for development and should be encouraged. The conclusion is controversial. Slum-dwellers now number a billion, but the rush to cities continues. A billion people live in lagging areas of developing nations, remote from globalizations many benefits. And poverty and high mortality persist among the world’s bottom billion, trapped without access to global markets, even as others grow more prosperous and live ever longer lives. Concern for these three intersecting billions often comes with the prescription that growth must be spatially balanced. This report has a different message: economic growth will be unbalanced. To try to spread it out is to discourage it to fight prosperity, not poverty. But development can still be inclusive, even for people who start their lives distant from dense economic activity. For growth to be rapid and shared, governments must promote economic integration, the pivotal concept, as this report argues, in the policy debates on urbanization, territorial development, and regional integration. Instead, all three debates overemphasize place-based interventions. Reshaping Economic Geography reframes these debates to include all the instruments of integration spatially blind institutions, spatially connective infrastructure, and spatially targeted interventions. By calibrating the blend of these instruments, today’s developers can reshape their economic geography. If they do this well, their growth will still be unbalanced, but their development will be inclusive.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-0-8213-7607-2
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-8213-7607-2
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/5991
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	decentralization
dc.subject	economic activity
dc.subject	economic concentration
dc.subject	economic geography
dc.subject	economic integration
dc.subject	income
dc.subject	industrialization
dc.subject	inefficiency
dc.subject	mercantilism
dc.subject	per capita incomes
dc.title	World Development Report 2009	en
dc.title.subtitle	Reshaping Economic Geography	en
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Public-Private Partnerships
okr.crossref.title	World Development Report 2009
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-15T11:38:52.024613Z
okr.globalpractice	Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice	Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice	Transport and ICT
okr.globalpractice	Social Protection and Labor
okr.globalpractice	Finance and Markets
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-0-8213-7607-2
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
okr.topic	Transport
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.topic	Private Sector Development
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor
okr.topic	Finance and Financial Sector Development
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