This knowledge review synthesizes the recent operational experience of seven developing countries in regional policy with lagging areas, with a focus on World Bank engagement. It provides a diagnostic tool to benchmark area performance in three dimensions and classifies areas based on three geographic determinants of growth - their resource endowment and remoteness (first-nature geography); market access (or connectedness), to reflect the extent to...
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2009/05/20
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Document de travail
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69703
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2012/06/15
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Disclosed
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A framework for Bank engagement in lagging areas
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higher incidence of poverty