Kanbur, Ravi; Venables, Anthony J. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analyzed evidence on the extent … disparities between rural and urban areas, and also between geographically advantaged and disadvantaged regions. In many countries … there are efficiency gains from the concentration of economic activity in urban centres and in coastal districts, the …