Description: Poor Place, Thriving People: How the Middle East and North Africa Can Rise Above Spatial Disparities (Mena Development Report) World Bank is available to download Geographical differences in living standards are a pressing concern for policymakers in the Middle East and North Africa Economies of agglomeration mean that production is most efficient when concentrated in leading So how can the region reduce spatial disparities in well-being without compromising growth? The solution to spatial disparities lies in matching the policy package to a lagging area’s specific Key questions include: is the lagging area problem really as serious as one thinks; is it a problem of low economic opportunity or of poor human development; are lagging area populations close enough to agglomerations to benefit from spillovers; and is there manifest private investor interest? Drawing on the World Bank’s 2009 World Development Report, Reshaping Economic Geography, the book proposes 3 policy all lagging areas can benefit from a "level playing-field for development" and investment in Geographic disparities in the policy environment are a legacy of MENA’s history, and gaps in human d.This material is available do download at niSearch on World Bank's eBooks, .Poor Place, Thriving People: ... Textbook ....

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