Spatial Inequality and Development (UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics)

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Maps......Page 11
List of Tables......Page 12
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 16
List of Contributors......Page 18
Foreword......Page 22
Acknowledgments......Page 24
Part I. Introduction......Page 26
1. Spatial Inequality and Development......Page 28
Part II. Measurement of Spatial Inequality......Page 38
2. Regional Output Differences in International Perspective......Page 40
3. Are Neighbours Equal? Estimating Local Inequality in Three Developing Countries......Page 62
4. Opening the Convergence Black Box: Measurement Problems and Demographic Aspects......Page 86
Part III. Location, Externalities, and Unequal Development......Page 100
5. Adverse Geography and Differences in Welfare in Peru......Page 102
6. Market Size, Linkages, and Productivity: A Study of Japanese Regions......Page 148
7. Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China......Page 162
Part V. Growth and Poverty Reduction – The Regional Linkage......Page 186
8. How Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Indonesia, 1984–99......Page 188
9. Reforms, Remoteness, and Risk in Africa: Understanding Inequality and Poverty during the 1990s......Page 234
Part VI. Trade, Wages, and Regional Inequality......Page 260
10. Economic Polarization Through Trade: Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico......Page 262
11. International Trade, Location, and Wage Inequality in China......Page 285
12. Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African Countries......Page 317
Part VII. Spatial Inequality During Transition......Page 334
13. Regional Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study......Page 336
14. Quo Vadis? Inequality and Poverty Dynamics Across Russian Regions......Page 373
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