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_aWorld Bank Group. _929143 |
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_aConvergence : _bFive Critical Steps toward Integrating Lagging and Leading Areas in the Middle East and North Africa. |
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_aWashington, D.C. : _bThe World Bank, _c2020. |
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| 520 | 3 | _aPolicy makers across the Middle East and North Africa have for many years articulated plans 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? Although the challenges are many and vary across the region, this book 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 book presents the five roots causes 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 lopsided business environments-within cities, within countries, and across national borders. | |
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_aEconomic Development _929145 |
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_aGrowth _929146 |
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_aInequality _929147 |
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_aLocal Governance _929148 |
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_aNew Cities _929149 |
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_aPrivate Sector Development _929150 |
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_aRegional Development _929151 |
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_aRegional Integration _929152 |
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_aUrban Development _929155 |
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