Urban Labour Productivity and Regional Development Strategies

L H Wang and S L Wong
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L H Wang: Department of Geography, Nanyang University, Singapore 2263
S L Wong: Toa Payoh Library, Singapore 1231

Environment and Planning A, 1980, vol. 12, issue 4, 449-461

Abstract: This paper, using the manufacturing industry of Peninsular Malaysia as a case study, reveals that the common assertion of a positive relationship between labour productivity and urban size may have exceptions, particularly in developing economies. Attempts are made to explain such a discrepancy and to examine the problem of regional development strategies and spatial underdevelopment in a Third World context. It is argued that a more careful approach to the conceptualization of spatial structure and processes is needed if it is to contribute to the formation of a regional development theory from which appropriate regional development strategies can be derived.

Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1068/a120449

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