Racing ahead or lagging behind? Territorial cohesion in human development around the globe

Iñaki Permanyer () and Nicolai Suppa ()
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Iñaki Permanyer: Centre for Demographic Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona

No 569, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: This paper investigates whether global improvements in human development involve sub-national regions in a territorially cohesive way. For that purpose, we use a sub-national human development index for over 1765 regions within162 countries over three decades, and propose measures for relative over- and under-performance. We observe that under- and over-development within countries tends to disappear over time around the world. In contrast, from a global perspective, we detect the presence of a non-negligible set of under-developing sub-national regions spanning across 20+ countries that, in the last two decades, have failed to catch-up with the world average human development.

Keywords: human development; inequality; regional disparities; territorial cohesion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I31 O15 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2021-01
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