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Can Backward Subnational Regions Catch Up with Advanced Ones?

This economic policy note examines the disparity in per capita incomes of both backward and advanced regions in developing countries, and explores a number of possible causes and policy intervention to bring about equalization (convergence). Among...

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Main Authors: Fallon, Peter, Lampart, Camille
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
AVERAGE RATE
BACKWARD AREAS
BACKWARD REGIONS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRY
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC POLICY
EMIGRATION
EMPLOYMENT
EQUALIZATION
ERROR TERM
EXERCISES
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
GROWTH THEORY
HOUSING
IMMIGRATION
INCOME DIFFERENTIALS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME LEVELS
IRON
LABOR MARKETS
MIGRATION
NEGATIVE GROWTH
PER CAPITA GROWTH
PER CAPITA INCOME
PER CAPITA INCOMES
PHYSICAL SECURITY
POLICY INTERVENTIONS
POVERTY REDUCTION
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
PRIVATIZATION
PUBLIC AGENCIES
PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
PUBLIC INVESTMENT
REGIONAL DISPARITIES
TRANSPORT
UNSKILLED LABOR
URBAN AREAS
WAGES PER CAPITA INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
CONVERGENCE
TRADE BARRIERS
TRANSPORTATION COSTS
FACTOR PRICES
INTERNAL MIGRATIONS
DIRECT INVESTMENT
INTERVENTION
FISCAL POLICY
PRIVATE INVESTMENTS
INVESTMENTS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1998/07/438763/can-backward-subnational-regions-catch-up-advanced-ones
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11542

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1998/07/438763/can-backward-subnational-regions-catch-up-advanced-ones
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11542

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