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Convergence
Five Critical Steps toward Integrating Lagging and Leading Areas in the Middle East and North Africa
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Convergence
Five Critical Steps toward Integrating Lagging and Leading Areas in the Middle East and North Africa
About this book
Policy 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 economyâor 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 MENAâurban 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 environmentsâwithin cities, within countries, and across national borders
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Memorandum to a Concerned Finance Minister
- About the Authors
- Abbreviations
- Overview
- 1 Fragmented Cities, Constrained Growth
- 2 Unequal Spaces and Stuck People
- 3 Walled Urban Economies
- 4 How States Shape Markets through Spatial and Private Sector Development Bets
- 5 Centralized Government: Contributor to Economic Geography
- 6 Five Steps for Enabling Growth through Thriving Cities and Towns in the Middle East and North Africa
- Boxes
- Back Cover