Bridging the Economic Divide within Nations : A Scorecard on the Performance of Regional Development Policies in Reducing Regional Income Disparities

Bridging the Economic Divide within Nations : A Scorecard on the Performance of Regional Development Policies in Reducing Regional Income Disparities

Regional inequalities represent a continuing development challenge in most countries, especially those with large geographic areas. Globalization heightens these challenges because it places a premium on skills: since rich regions typically also ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shankar, Raja, Shah, Anwar
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
AGRICULTURE
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITIVE MARKET
COMPETITIVENESS
CONSTANT RETURNS
CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
CONVERGENCE HYPOTHESIS
COUNTRY COMPARISONS
COUNTRY POPULATION
CROSS COUNTRY
DATA AVAILABILITY
DECENTRALIZATION
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES
DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC POWER
ECONOMIC REFORM
EMPIRICAL ESTIMATES
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
EMPIRICAL TEST
EQUAL DISTRIBUTION
EXPORTS
EXTERNALITIES
GDP
GINI INDEX
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HUMAN CAPITAL
INCOME
INCOME DIFFERENTIALS
INCOME DISPARITIES
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME LEVELS
INCOMES
INCREASING RETURNS
INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE
INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
INDUSTRIAL ECONOMIES
INEQUALITY MEASURE
INEQUALITY MEASURES
INEQUALITY TRENDS
MEAN INCOME
NATURAL LOGARITHM
PER CAPITA INCOME
PERFECT COMPETITION
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR PERFORMANCE
POPULATION SHARE
POSITIVE GROWTH
POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC AGENCIES
PUBLIC POLICIES
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
REGIONAL DISPARITIES
REGIONAL GROWTH
REGIONAL INEQUALITIES
REGIONAL INEQUALITY
REGRESSION RESULTS
RESOURCE ENDOWMENTS
RURAL AREAS
SKILLED LABOR
SKILLED WORKERS
STANDARD DEVIATION
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/11/1637745/bridging-economic-divide-within-nations-scorecard-performance-regional-development-policies-reducing-regional-income-disparities
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19439

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/11/1637745/bridging-economic-divide-within-nations-scorecard-performance-regional-development-policies-reducing-regional-income-disparities
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19439

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