Henderson, J. Vernon; Shalizi, Zmarak; Venables, Anthony - 2000
The most striking fact about the economic geography of the world is the uneven spatial distribution of economic … concentrated in a few temperate zones, half of the world's GDP is produced by 15 percent of the world's population, and 54 percent … of the world's GDP is produced by countries occupying just 10 percent of the world's land area. The poorest half of the …