Government Quality and Spatial Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

Ezcurra, Roberto; Rodríguez‐Pose, Andrés

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“…Inspired mainly by the literature on (new) economic geography, current influential accounts of spatial inequality emphasise variations in geography and and the effectiveness of market forces as the main explanatory factors (Kanbur & Venables, ; World Bank, ). Although a new set of literature has now increasingly gone beyond these techno‐econoomic accounts of spatial inequality, much of this emerging lierature has focused almost exclusively on the impact of the quality of governance and institutions (van de Walle, ; Ezcurra & Rodríguez‐Pose, ; Tomaney, ; Rodríguez‐Pose, ), ignoring the question of why similar institutions have often produced very divergent development outcomes in different settings.…”

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Rethinking Spatial Inequality in Development: The Primacy of Power Relations

Abdulai

2016

J. Int. Dev.

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Why do spatial inequalities emerge and persist? After showing that existing explanations of spatial inequality are at best partial, this article argues that persistent spatial development disparities are the product of the terms on which underdeveloped regions are incorporated into ruling coalitions. In most cases, political elites from lagging regions are incorporated on marginal terms, undermining their capacity to direct public resources to their constituents. Consequently, governments direct more resources to relatively better-off and politically dominant regions, reinforcing spatial inequalities. Our analyses highlight the importance of going beyond a dichotomous assessment of whether disadvantaged regions are included or excluded from ruling coalitions to an examination of the terms of their inclusion.

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Rethinking Spatial Inequality in Development: The Primacy of Power Relations

Abdulai

2016

J. Int. Dev.

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“…Rodríguez‐Pose has paid special attention to this aspect, underlying the key role of the institutions quality to support and/or to render difficult the development of regions. Between his contributions to this topic: Rodríguez‐Pose and Garcilazo () on the quality of government and the returns of investment; Ezcurra and Rodríguez‐Pose (), on the government quality and spatial inequality; or the suggestive article on the human geography and the institutions that underline economic growth (Farole, Rodríguez‐Pose, & Storper, ). He has also paid attention to the relationship between devolution and regional development (Rodríguez‐Pose & Gill, ; the economic (in)efficiency of devolution (Rodríguez‐Pose & Bwire, ).…”

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Development, contributions and trends in regional studies in Spain: An overview

Cuadrado‐Roura

2020

Papers in Regional Science

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The aim of this paper is to show the development of regional and urban studies in Spain, pointing out the main factors that have influenced such development, the topics analysed by the Spanish researchers and why Spain has today a remarkable position in the field of regional science. Regional problems have always taken up a very important place among the concerns of the Spanish society. This has been closely linked to longstanding historical and internal political conflicts. But, leaving aside some very interesting contributions and territorial projects developed in the past, the research on regional issues emerged really in the 1960s and the consolidation phase took place from 1975 to 2000, as explained in Sections 2 and 3. From the beginning of this century the field has received a clear thrust, supported by a new generation of economists and geographers. The increasing presence of Spanish researchers in international congresses, workshops and specialized journals enable to state that Spain has reached a similar level as in more advanced countries. Section 4 collects the most outstanding topics and innovative contributions made from 2000 to now. A short final note (section 5) points out some final remarks and why a positive continuity of the progress observed can be expected.

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“…This suggests that in countries where it has been applied, political decentralisation may have created precedents for localised implementation of SDG 11. The development outcomes of devolutionary policies are mixed and the subject of much discussion as they depend on a variety of factors (see, for example, [40], [42]) -not least the quality of the governance framework, which includes questions of voice and accountability, and agenda-setting by local elites ( [43]).…”

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The Impact of Urban Inequalities on Monitoring Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 11: Methodological Considerations

Ulbrich¹,

Albuquerque²,

Coaffee³

2018

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There is much discussion regarding the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) capacity to promote inclusive development. While some argue that they represent an opportunity for collaborative goal-led and evidence-based governance, other voices express concerns as they perceive them as techno-managerial framework, that measures development according to quantitatively defined parameters and does not allow for local variation. We argue that the extent to which the positive or negative aspects of the SDGs prevail depends on the monitoring system’s ability to account for multiple and intersecting inequalities. Attention to the role of inequalities for SDG monitoring is of particular importance for SDG 11 due to the additional methodological challenge posed by the need for sub-nationally (urban) representative indicators – especially in cities with intra-urban inequalities related to socio-spatial variations among neighbourhoods. Investigating the extent to which its representativeness is vulnerable to inequalities we systematically analyse the current methodological proposals for the SDG 11 indicator framework. The outcome is a call for 1) a more explicit attention to intra-urban inequalities, 2) the development of a methodological approach to “recalibrate” the city-level indicators to account for the degree of intra-urban inequalities, and 3) an alignment between methodologies and data practices applied for monitoring SDG 11 and the extent of the underlying inequalities within the city that is being assessed. This would enable an informed decision regarding the trade-off in indicator representativeness between conventional data sources, such as censuses and household surveys, and emerging methods, such as participatory geospatial methods and citizen-generated data practices.

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Government Quality and Spatial Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

Cited by 42 publications

References 69 publications

Rethinking Spatial Inequality in Development: The Primacy of Power Relations

Rethinking Spatial Inequality in Development: The Primacy of Power Relations

Development, contributions and trends in regional studies in Spain: An overview

The Impact of Urban Inequalities on Monitoring Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 11: Methodological Considerations

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