Territorial Development Policy : A Practitioner's Guide

Policymakers in developing countries are increasingly recognizing the necessity of developing strategies and identifying specific investment programs to reduce spatial differences in living standards within their national territories. Choosing among alternate policy instruments to support spatial convergence is not straightforward. Should the focus be social policies that support human development in lagging regions and promote migration to leading regions? Or infrastructure policies that connect lagging regions with markets in leading ones? Or investment and regulatory policies to create new clusters of economic activity in regions not favored by the market? The 2009 World Development Report (WDR) provides a policy framework for integrating lagging and leading areas within countries, prioritizing and sequencing policy instruments based on the severity of the territorial integration challenge. To operationalize the WDR's policy priorities, this report discusses analytic tools to measure the magnitude of regional disparities and identify where and in what activities specific policies and investments can be most effective. It also highlights potential economic and social tradeoffs of alternative policy instruments for pursuing spatial equity. Country case studies are provided to illustrate how these tools either inform a specific policy debate on territorial development or have been directly used to guide ongoing policy discussions between the Bank and counterparts in national and sub national governments.

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Main Author:	Lall, Somik V.
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2009-05-05
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE TERMS, ACCESS TO MARKETS, ACCESSIBILITY, ACCESSIBILITY INDICES, ACCESSIBILITY TO MARKETS, ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS, AGGLOMERATION BENEFITS, AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES, AGRICULTURE, AUTOMOBILE, AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY, AVERAGE PRODUCTIVITY, BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE, BENCHMARK, BOTTLENECKS, CENTRAL REGION, COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT, CONCENTRATION OF PEOPLE, CONSUMER GOODS, CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES, CROP PRODUCTION, DEMAND FOR TRANSPORT, DEMAND FOR TRANSPORT SERVICES, DEREGULATION, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT POLICIES, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DIVERSIFICATION, DRIVERS, ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, ECONOMIC CONCENTRATION, ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, ECONOMIC GROUPINGS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, ECONOMIC REGION, ECONOMIC STRUCTURES, ECONOMIC THEORY, ECONOMICS LITERATURE, ECONOMIES OF SCALE, EFFICIENCY OF INFRASTRUCTURE, ELASTICITIES, ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES, EXPECTED RETURN, EXPECTED RETURNS, EXTERNALITIES, FARMERS, FIXED COSTS, FOOD PROCESSING, FOOD PRODUCTS, FREIGHT, FREIGHT TRANSPORT, FUEL, FUEL COSTS, GDP, GDP PER CAPITA, GINI COEFFICIENT, GROWTH ACROSS REGIONS, GROWTH POTENTIAL, HIGH TRANSPORT, HIGHWAY, HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION, HIGHWAY PROJECTS, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD WELFARE, HOUSING, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, ILLITERACY, INCOME, INCOME ACROSS REGIONS, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCOME LEVELS, INCREASING RETURNS, INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE POLICIES, INFRASTRUCTURES, INTERNATIONAL BANK, INTERREGIONAL TRADE, INTERREGIONAL TRANSPORT, LAGGING REGION, LAGGING REGIONS, LAND SIZE, LENGTH OF MOTORWAYS, LIVING STANDARDS, MARGINAL PRODUCT, MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY, MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY, MOBILITY, MONOPOLIES, MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN, NATIONAL INCOME, NATIONAL POVERTY, NATURAL ENDOWMENTS, NOMINAL INCOME, NUTRITION, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES, PER CAPITA INCOME, PER CAPITA INCOMES, PERIPHERAL REGIONS, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, POOR MARKET ACCESS, POOR PEOPLE, POOR REGIONS, POORER REGIONS, POPULATION DENSITIES, POVERTY ESTIMATES, POVERTY INCIDENCE, POVERTY MAP, POVERTY MAPS, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY REDUCTION, PRODUCTION COSTS, PRODUCTION FUNCTION, PRODUCTIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH, PUBLIC INVESTMENT, PUBLIC INVESTMENTS, RAILROAD, RAILROADS, RAILWAY, RAILWAY STATIONS, RAILWAYS, REDUCTION IN TRAVEL, REGIONAL ALLOCATION, REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, REGIONAL CONVERGENCE, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND, REGIONAL DIFFERENCES, REGIONAL DISPARITIES, REGIONAL DISPARITY, REGIONAL DUMMY, REGIONAL EFFECTS, REGIONAL GROWTH, REGIONAL IMBALANCES, REGIONAL IMPACTS, REGIONAL INCOMES, REGIONAL INDICATORS, REGIONAL INEQUALITIES, REGIONAL INEQUALITY, REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL LEVEL, REGIONAL LEVELS, REGIONAL MARKET, REGIONAL POLICIES, REGIONAL POLICY, REGIONAL PRODUCT, REGIONAL PRODUCTION, REGIONAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION, REGIONAL SPECIALIZATION, REGIONAL STRATEGY, REGIONAL TRADE, REGIONAL TRAVEL, REGIONAL VARIATIONS, REGRESSION ANALYSIS, REMOTE AREAS, REMOTE LOCATIONS, REMOTE REGIONS, RICH REGIONS, ROAD, ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE, ROAD MAINTENANCE, ROAD NETWORK, ROAD TYPE, ROADS, ROUTES, RURAL AREAS, SANITATION, SCHOOLING, SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT, SPATIAL DIFFERENCES, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, SPATIAL EQUITY, SPATIAL IMPACT, SPATIAL INEQUALITIES, SPATIAL INEQUALITY, SPATIAL ORGANIZATION, SPATIAL POLICY, SPATIAL SCALE, SUBSISTENCE, SUBSISTENCE FARMERS, TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT, TRAFFIC, TRANSPORT, TRANSPORT CORRIDORS, TRANSPORT COSTS, TRANSPORT IMPROVEMENTS, TRANSPORT INDUSTRY, TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT INVESTMENTS, TRANSPORT NETWORK, TRANSPORT SECTOR, TRANSPORT SYSTEM, TRANSPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION COSTS, TRANSPORTATION RATES, TRAVEL COSTS, TRAVEL TIME, TRAVEL TIMES, TRUCKS, TRUE, UNEMPLOYMENT, UTILITY FUNCTION, VEHICLE, VEHICLE COSTS, VEHICLES, WEALTH, WELFARE IMPROVEMENTS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/05/16461390/territorial-development-policy-practitioners-guide https://hdl.handle.net/10986/12698
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