Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review

To accelerate growth and create jobs, the Western Balkans and Croatia will need faster economic growth generated by advanced industries and services that usually concentrate in cities. Raising the competitiveness of leading cities will thus be the priority for growth and job creation in the region. At the same time addressing the challenges of places left behind will be increasingly important for shared prosperity and sustainable growth. European Union (EU) accession, technological changes, and globalization are most likely to create growth opportunities that will favor cities and their agglomeration economies. These trends, if left unchecked, are also more likely to increase spatial welfare disparities. This report advocates for a stronger focus on cities, especially capital cities and their metro regions, as engines of growth and job creation. It also argues for policymakers to focus on lagging regions to address spatial welfare disparities likely to increase with the concentration of people and economic activity in fewer places.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank Group
Format:	Report biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019-10
Subjects:	URBANIZATION, URBAN PLANNING, URBAN POVERTY, SPATIAL ECONOMICS, SPATIAL DISPARITY, CAPITAL CITY, EU INTEGRATION, CITY COMPETITIVENESS, AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS, WELFARE EFFECTS, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY, LAGGING REGION,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/404331565242902772/Main-Report https://hdl.handle.net/10986/32308
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