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From the bestselling author of The Bottom Billion, the fate of the poorest regions of the world–some of which exist in the richest nations–is examined. Using examples of the “left behind” regions, renowned development economist Paul Collier shows that centralized western economies have been the most ineffective to alleviate poverty—even if nationally the country seems to be growing. In Left Behind, Collier examines how the assumption that any impoverished area will find a way to progress through market forces has devastated nations all over the world. With keen insight, he draws lessons from such disparate fields as behavioral psychology, evolutionary biology, and moral philosophy to explain how we can adapt to the needs of individual economies in order to build a brighter and fairer global future.

In recent years, the growing disparities between rural and urban areas in developing countries have been a cause of major concern. The rural-urban gap remains the single most well-documented development and welfare disparity in the developing world. This gap can be seen in the low economic activities, higher poverty levels, and lower quality infrastructure and services in rural areas as opposed to urban areas. While the magnitude of this rural-urban divide is well-documented, very little has been documented about its impact on inclusive and sustainable urban development. The Handbook of Research on Managing the Urban-Rural Divide Through an Inclusive Framework aims to capture the spatial and socio-economic divide between rural and urban areas and provides a road map to revamping the discussion that surrounds the urban-rural sphere. Covering key topics such as development, food security, and rural regions, this premier reference source is ideal for policymakers, government officials, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, instructors, and students.

This book provides interesting insights for the identification of socioeconomic, demographic and territorial factors that affect structural disparities in local economies. Urban development is the result of demographic dynamics at the local level, connected to socioeconomic factors, and of economic growth, whose fluctuations are particularly sensitive to the economic cycle in countries, such as the ones in the Mediterranean basin, characterized by greater informality of the sector and limited public/social housing. Our objective is to provide a contribution to sustainability planning, explaining the linkage between forms of urban development and economic growth, providing policy indications for integrated spatial planning, and for cohesion policies that may leverage social and economic competitiveness.

Understanding Global Crises is an innovative and interdisciplinary text that investigates the key contemporary economic, social, and environmental crises and demonstrates their deep interconnection. Contributing to the discussion of large-scale crises, this book provides a conceptual framework to understand the current global landscape. Essential cascading crises topics, such as economic collapse, climate change, racial injustice, domestic violence, and epistemic oppression, are explored in order to equip readers with the clarity to understand global crises, assess policy interventions, and analyze social responses. To achieve future resilience, the book shows that society must recognize various forms of inequality and make policy changes. Each chapter showcases an international case study, covering real-life examples of topics such as climate disinformation, vaccine distribution disparities, environmental racism, and socioeconomic deprivation. Other features of the book include key terms, suggested further reading, and discussion questions, as well as online supplements comprising PowerPoint slides and an instructor's guide. Understanding Global Crises will be a valuable text to support courses in economics, environmental studies, political science, public health, and social policy.

The book subjects the regional imbalances and regional development policies. The book investigates the factors causing the regional imbalances. The book results that Turkey's policies struggles with the regional imbalance and Turkey should make more effective regional development policies.

The definitions for'marginality'and'marginal regions'are vague and differ between academic disciplines. Marginal regions could however be characterized as regions lying off mainstream processes (in a sort of vacuum) both in society and economy, but also in relation to the natural environment and geographical remoteness. Illustrated by a wide range of international case studies, this book provides a complete overview of current research into marginality and examines a wide range of possible development options which could offer hope to marginal regions. It explores the background to various kinds of marginality, describes various types of marginal regions and discusses possible solutions for political, economic and socio-cultural actors to fight the ongoing processes of marginalization. Marginality and marginal regions are looked at from a wide perspective and are seen as being in part the outcome of globalization and deregulation. The book not only discusses practical policy options, but also considers marginality in its relation to ethics and spirituality.

Der Band setzt sich mit einem für Planung und Politik sowie räumliche Sozialforschung wichtigen, jedoch wenig beleuchteten Thema auseinander – mit dem Thema der Grenze. Dabei ist der Band auf unterschiedlichen Diskursebenen angesiedelt: einerseits auf einer theoretisch-konzeptionellen Ebene, die sich mit dem Thema der Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung auseinandersetzt. Andererseits wird die Bedeutung von Grenzen für die Planungs- und Handlungspraxis von Akteuren anhand konkreter Beispiele ausgelotet. Das Ziel des Bandes ist eine Reflexion aktueller und tagespolitischer Fragestellungen zum Thema Grenze im räumlichen, wie auch sozialen Kontext. Neben einem Beitrag zur geographischen Theoriebildung des Phänomens Grenze soll auch dessen Rolle als alltäglicher Handlungsrahmen, als Barriere bzw. als durchlässiger Kontext thematisiert werden. Der Inhalt• Theoretische und konzeptionelle Zugänge zu Grenzen• Grenzen und Planungspraxis• Grenzen und HandlungspraxisDie Zielgruppen• Studierende, Wissenschaftler und Interessierte aus den Bereichen Geographie, Soziologie, Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft und Raumplanung• Regionalmanager, Stadt- und RegionalplanerDie HerausgeberProf. Dr. Martin Heintel lehrt am Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung an der Universität Wien.Dr. Robert Musil ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung (ÖAW).Prof. Dr. Norbert Weixlbaumer lehrt am Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung an der Universität Wien.

Throughout the world today former nation-states, as disparate as Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Canada, have either disintegrated or threaten to splinter into regions. The conflicts are economic, social, ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, and cultural. Higgins and Savoie analyze the reasons for these conflicts and show why attempts to eliminate regional disparities within nations have been largely unsuccessful. This volume is a highly readable, comprehensive survey of the literature and current debates in the fields of regional economics, development, policy, and planning.

Deals with the intersection of issues associated with globalization and the dynamics of core-periphery relations. It places these debates in a large and vital context asking what the relations between cores and peripheries have in forming our vision of what constitutes globalization and what were and are its possible effects. In this sense the debate on globalization is framed as part of a larger and more crucial discourse that tries to account for the essential dynamics—economic, social, political and cultural—between metropolitan areas and their peripheries.

This book draws on the expertise of both North American and European specialists of regional economics, evaluating the impact of economic policy in certain regions and considering alternative policies to foster regional economic development and improve the employment and income of the residents of these regions.Martinez-Vazquez and Vaillancourt hav

This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality. Covers both the geographical context of morality, and moralities in geographical methods and practices. Contains up-to-date case studies based on original research. Deals with controversial issues, such as problems of globalization, European integration, human rights in Nigeria, territorial conflict in Israel, and land reform in post-apartheid South Africa. The editors are well-published leading international authorities. The contributors are drawn from Australia, Eastern Europe, Israel, South Africa, the UK and the US.

David Harvey brings an exciting perspective to two of the principal themes of contemporary social discourse; globalization and the body.

The pursuit of economic growth is at the top of every nation's policy agenda at the end of the 20th century. This authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly-based convergence model of economic growth by considering global, national and regional patterns of growth from a comparative perspective. Issues examined include:the evolution of the firm and the role of R&Dlong-term implications of the loss of national sovereigntyinternational'openness'social and political institutionspatterns of regional harmonization in the United States, particularly income and earnings trends across states and the reasons for convergencepersistent regional disparities in Europe including the roles of sectoral transformation, regional spillovers, human capital formation and the allocation of structural fundsthe experience of convergence in individual countries including Italy, the UK, Spain and Germany