Convergence
Policymakers across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long tried to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in transport corridors and "new cities." Hoping to provide jobs in places with little economic activity, governments have designated new industrial zones supported by spatially targeted business incentives. Yet the results of these place-based initiatives in MENA are limited. The disparities between capital cities and lagging areas, and between richer and poorer quarters of cities, remain stark. Across much of the region, a fortunate few are connected to opportunity, while many more people are marginal to the formal economy--or live outside it, seemingly forgotten. Why have place-based spatial initiatives in MENA countries largely underdelivered not yielding more sustainable jobs and growth? While the challenges are many and vary across the region, this report explains that many of these place-based policies get one thing wrong: they attempt to treat inequity’s spatial and physical symptoms, not its causes. This report presents the five roots of spatial inequity in institutional inefficiencies across MENA--urban regulatory frictions, credentialist education systems, centralized control over local public services, barriers to the spatial mobility of goods and people, and barriers to market entry and lop-sided business environments – within cities, within countries, and across national borders. It proposes five transitional steps toward enabling convergence informed by economic geography.
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Subjects: | SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT, REGIONAL INTEGRATION, PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, LOCAL GOVERNANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT, NEW CITIES, CAPTURE, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, GROWTH, INEQUALITY, |
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dig-okr-10986331872023-03-10T23:09:19Z Convergence Five Critical Steps toward Integrating Lagging and Leading Areas in the Middle East and North Africa World Bank SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL INTEGRATION PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT NEW CITIES CAPTURE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROWTH INEQUALITY Policymakers across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long tried to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in transport corridors and "new cities." Hoping to provide jobs in places with little economic activity, governments have designated new industrial zones supported by spatially targeted business incentives. Yet the results of these place-based initiatives in MENA are limited. The disparities between capital cities and lagging areas, and between richer and poorer quarters of cities, remain stark. Across much of the region, a fortunate few are connected to opportunity, while many more people are marginal to the formal economy--or live outside it, seemingly forgotten. Why have place-based spatial initiatives in MENA countries largely underdelivered not yielding more sustainable jobs and growth? While the challenges are many and vary across the region, this report explains that many of these place-based policies get one thing wrong: they attempt to treat inequity’s spatial and physical symptoms, not its causes. This report presents the five roots of spatial inequity in institutional inefficiencies across MENA--urban regulatory frictions, credentialist education systems, centralized control over local public services, barriers to the spatial mobility of goods and people, and barriers to market entry and lop-sided business environments – within cities, within countries, and across national borders. It proposes five transitional steps toward enabling convergence informed by economic geography. 2020-01-15T18:36:13Z 2020-01-15T18:36:13Z 2020-02-09 Book Livre Libro http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/722551567149982499/Five-Critical-Steps-Toward-Integrating-Lagging-and-Leading-Areas-in-the-Middle-East-and-North-Africa http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/222441581401037152 978-1-4648-1450-1 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33187 English CC BY 3.0 IGO World Bank http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo application/pdf application/pdf Washington, DC: World Bank |
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SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL INTEGRATION PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT NEW CITIES CAPTURE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROWTH INEQUALITY SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL INTEGRATION PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT NEW CITIES CAPTURE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROWTH INEQUALITY |
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Policymakers across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long tried to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in transport corridors and "new cities." Hoping to provide jobs in places with little economic activity, governments have designated new industrial zones supported by spatially targeted business incentives.
Yet the results of these place-based initiatives in MENA are limited. The disparities between capital cities and lagging areas, and between richer and poorer quarters of cities, remain stark. Across much of the region, a fortunate few are connected to opportunity, while many more people are marginal to the formal economy--or live outside it, seemingly forgotten. Why have place-based spatial initiatives in MENA countries largely underdelivered not yielding more sustainable jobs and growth? While the challenges are many and vary across the region, this report explains that many of these place-based policies get one thing wrong: they attempt to treat inequity’s spatial and physical symptoms, not its causes.
This report presents the five roots of spatial inequity in institutional inefficiencies across MENA--urban regulatory frictions, credentialist education systems, centralized control over local public services, barriers to the spatial mobility of goods and people, and barriers to market entry and lop-sided business environments – within cities, within countries, and across national borders. It proposes five transitional steps toward enabling convergence informed by economic geography. |
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