PHA-Exch> World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography

Wed Nov 12 15:35:55 PST 2008

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org

 *World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography *

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*World Bank, November 6, 2008*

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Website: http://www.worldbank.org/wdr2009.

"…..Economic growth will be unbalanced, but development still can be
inclusive. That is the main message of this year's World Development Report.
The report proposes that spatial transformations along the following three
dimensions will be necessary:
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*Higher density* as seen in the growth of cities. Tokyo, the world's largest
city is home to 35 million--a quarter of Japan's population--but stands on
just four percent of its land.

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*Shorter distances* as firms and workers migrate closer to economic
opportunities. Eight million Americans change states every year, migrating
to reduce distance to economic opportunity.

*Fewer divisions as countries* thin their economic borders to enter world
markets to take advantage of specialization and scale. Border restrictions
to flows of goods, capital, ideas, and people continue to prevent progress
in Africa, in contrast with Western Europe…."

"….The new *World Development Report* challenges the assumption that
economic activities must be spread geographically to benefit the world's
most poor and vulnerable.  Trying to spread out economic activity can hinder
growth and does little to fight poverty. For rapid, shared growth,
governments must promote economic integration which, at its core, is about
the mobility of people, products, and ideas…"

*Overviews (multilingual)*
English<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_01_Overviewweb.pdf>PDF
file [32p.] at:

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_01_Overviewweb.pdf
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*Coming soon*: Arabic, Chinese, French Spanish, and Portuguese

*Table of Contents & front
matter<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_00_FMweb.pdf>
**Complete report Part
1<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_bookweb_1.pdf>
 | Part 2<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_bookweb_2.pdf>
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[image: spacer] Available online at: http://go.worldbank.org/O4MD5RGAF0

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Geography in motion: The Report at a Glance - Density, Distance, and
Division<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_00_FMGIM0web.pdf>

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Overview<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_01_Overviewweb.pdf>

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*Part One: Seeing Development in
3-D<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/PartOne_web_full.pdf>
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Chapter 1: Density<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_05_Ch01web.pdf>
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Chapter 2: Distance<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_06_Ch02web.pdf>
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Chapter 3: Division<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_07_Ch03web.pdf>

Geography in motion: Overcoming Division in Western
Europe<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_08_GIM02web.pdf>

*Part Two: Shaping Economic
Geography<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/PartTwo_web_full.pdf>
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Chapter 4: Scale Economies and
Agglomeration<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_10_Ch04web.pdf>
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Chapter 5: Factor Mobility and
Migration<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_11_Ch05web.pdf>
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Chapter 6: Transport Costs and
Specialization<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_12_Ch06web.pdf>

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Geography in motion: Distance and Division in East
Asia<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_13_GIM03web.pdf>

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*Part Three: Reframing the Policy
Debates<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/PartThree_web_full.pdf>
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Chapter 7: Concentration without Congestion: Policies for an inclusive
urbanization<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_15_Ch07web.pdf>
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Chapter 8: Unity, Not Uniformity: Effective approaches to territorial
development<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_16_Ch08web.pdf>
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Chapter 9: Winners without Borders: Integrating poor countries with world
markets<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_17_Ch09web.pdf>

Geography in motion: Density, Distance, and Division in Sub-Saharan
Africa<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_18_GIM04web.pdf>

Bibliographical
Note<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_19_BibNoteweb.pdf>

Endnotes<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_20_Endnotesweb.pdf>

References<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_21_Referencesweb.pdf>

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Selected World Development
Indicators<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_22_SWDIweb.pdf>

Index<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_23_Indexweb.pdf>
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