REGIONAL PUSH: TOWARDS A GEOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES

Allen Scott

Development and Comp Systems from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Regional push derives from the geographic agglomeration of economic activities, and is expressed in increments to national productivity. Various pieces of statistical evidence in favor of the existence of regional push effects in low- and middle-income economies are marshalled. The origins of these effects in different sorts of externalities and increasing returns to agglomerative scale and scope are analyzed in theoretical terms. Further evidence for the existence of these effects is displayed in a brief review of published case studies of African, Asian, and Latin American regions. A number of observations are then offered on the possibilities of identifying viable developmental policies and practices directed to enhancing the productivity-boosting properties of regions in low- and middle-income economies.

Keywords: Agglomeration; big push; regional development; developing countries; local economic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O P (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2005-11-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-geo, nep-int and nep-ure
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