An Introduction to Place-Based Development Economics and Policy

• Main Author: Seravalli, Gilberto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Economic geography.; Economic policy.; Development economics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Development Economics.; Economic Geography.; Economic Policy.

This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public intervention that it suggests. The starting point for the analysis is that economic development in laggi...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Spatially-blind vs place-based policies
• 2 The spatial perspective
• 3 Institutions, agency and path dependency
• 4 Under valorized areas
• 5 Dealing with uncertainty.