Spatial Inequality and Development

Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics at Cornell University and has been Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank.Anthony J. Venables is Professor of International Economics at the London School of Economics and has been Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton and Trade Research Manager at the World Bank.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Regional Output Differences in International Perspective ; 3. Are Neighbors Equal? Estimating Local Inequality in Three Developing Countries ; 4. Market Size, Linkages and Productivity: A Study of Japanese Regions ; 5. Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China ; 6. Opening the Convergence Black Box: Measurement Problems and Demographic Aspects ; 7. Adverse Geography and Differences in Welfare in Peru ; 8. How Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Indonesia, 1984-1999 ; 9. Reforms, Remoteness and Risk in Africa: Understanding Inequality and Poverty During the 1990s ; 10. Economic Polarization Through Trade: Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico ; 11. International Trade, Location and Wage inequality in China ; 12. Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African Countries ; 13. Regional Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study ; 14. Quo Vadis: Inequality and Poverty Dynamics Across Russian Regions

This book, edited by two internationally recognized leaders in development economics and economic geography ... is highly recommended to scholars within peace research - especially those working on distributional issues and violent conflict.