Territorial economic structure: an analysis of micro-regional disparities in France

Structure économique des territoires: une analyse des disparités micro-régionales à l'échelle des pays en France

Francis Aubert, Denis Lépicier () and Philippe Perrier-Cornet
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Francis Aubert: CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement
Denis Lépicier: CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement
Philippe Perrier-Cornet: UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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Abstract: An understanding of economic and social disparities at the micro-regional level primarily involves relations between urban and rural areas. We examine the "pays" as established by legislation on territorial planning and development, drawing up an inventory of these areas which were set up on a political basis but which are large enough for development issues to be envisaged. This article draws on input from regional economics in an attempt to account for the diversity of local arrangements regarding "pays" on the basis of spatial structuring criteria which combine the rural/urban distinction and the occurrence of towns. Cluster thus established is submitted to a multinomial logit model to analyse the discriminant character of economic variables relating to the sectoral structure, the labour market, population services and social structures. Each class of "pays" is then characterised in terms of its development potential.

Keywords: micro-regional growth; territory; policy; regional economics; territoire; croissance micro-régionale; économie régionale; politique des Pays (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Published in Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine, 2010, 2, pp.203-225

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