Geography of Growth: Spatial Economics and Competitiveness

by Breda Griffith, Raj Nallari, Shahid Yusuf

Since the 1990s, new economic geography has received a lot of attention as mainstream economists such as Krugman and others began to focus on where economic activity occurs and why. Coincidentally, international trade, location theory, and urban economics all appear to be asking the same question: where is economic activity located and why? The challenge is to explain the economic concentration or agglomeration of a large number of activities in certain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082139486X
• ISBN13: 9780821394861
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"