Economic Geographers and the Limelight: Institutions and Policy in the "World Development Report 2009"

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose ()

Economic Geography, 2010, vol. 86, issue 4, pages 361-370

Abstract: The reaction of economic geographers to the World Bank's "World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography" has so far been a corporatist turf-protecting exercise. The report has been dismissed as the work of economists who completely ignore a rich tradition of work by "proper" economic geographers. However, this negative response has prevented geographers from engaging constructively with the World Bank's analysis and proposals. In this article, I argue that, while the report presents an accurate diagnosis of recent development trends and should be praised for its flexibility in providing numerous policy alternatives, geographers can significantly contribute by promoting a discussion around two key issues in the report: its treatment of institutions and its recommendation of spatially blind policies. Copyright (c) 2010 Clark University.

Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations View citations in EconPapers (1) Track citations by RSS feed

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2010.01094.x link to full text (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:ecgeog:v:86:y:2010:i:4:p:361-370

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=0013-0095

Access Statistics for this article

Economic Geography is edited by Yuko Aoyama, Amy Glasmeier, Gernot Grabher and Henry Wai-chung Yeung

More articles in Economic Geography from Clark University
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Wiley-Blackwell Digital Licensing ().