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Poverty and Regional Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (World Bank Working Papers) (World Bank Working Papers) by Dillinger, William R. , 1951- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Regional economic development is an interest of policymakers throughout the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. On eo fits principal aims is to reduce poverty in lagging regions by stimulating local economic growth. However, problems exist with this approach. First, it may miss the target. Although geographical concentrations of poverty exist, poor people also live in regions that are - on average - rich. Second, the sourves of the problem may be misdiagnosed. Poverty is not only related to where people are, but to who people are. In ECA, poverty is associated with low levels of education and people who are too young or too old to participate in the labor force. Under these circumstances, efforts to bring higher wage employment opportunities to poor regions may have little immediate benefit for the people who live there. Third, relying on regional economic development to address poverty in lagging regions ignores the potential role of migration. The emigration of labor, rather than the immigration of capital, may be a more effective means of reducing the poverty of individuals in lagging regions, though this is unlikely to eliminate pockets of poverty quickly. Development oppor
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- Author
- Dillinger, William R. , 1951-
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications; World Bank
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781280940378
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Nursing, Science
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