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Regions, Globalization, Development

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  • Allen Scott
  • Michael Storper

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S COTT A. J. and S TORPER M. (2003) Regions, globalization, development , Reg. Studies 37 , 579-593. Regional economies are synergy-laden systems of physical and relational assets, and intensifying globalization is making this situation more and not less the case. As such, regions are an essential dimension of the development process, not just in the more advanced countries but also in less- developed parts of the world. Development theorists have hitherto largely tended to overlook this critical issue in favour of an emphasis on macroeconomic considerations. At the same time, conventional theories of the relationship between urbanization and economic development have favoured the view that the former is simply an effect of the latter. To be fully general, the theory of development must incorporate the role of cities and regions as active and causal elements in the economic growth process. This argument has consequences for development policy, especially in regard to the promotion of positive agglomeration economies and the initiation of growth in poorer regions. A related policy problem concerns ways of dealing with the increase in interregional inequalities associated with contemporary globalization. Issues of economic geography are thus of major significance to development theory and practice. S COTT A. J. et S TORPER M. (2003) Les regions, la mondialisation, le developpement, Reg. Studies 37 , 579-593. Les e conomies regionales sont des systemes d'atouts physiques et relationnels bourres de synergies, et l'intensification de la mondialisation renforce cet etat des choses. En tant que telles, les regions constituent un element cle du processus de developpement, non seulement dans les pays plus avances, mais aussi dans les zones moins developpees du monde. Jusqu'ici, les theoriciens du developpement ont eu tendance a ignorer en grande partie cette question primordiale, favorisant plutot des considerations macroeconomiques. En meme temps, des theories traditionnelles du rapport entre l'urbanisation et le developpement economique ont affirme que celle-la s'explique par celui-ci. En principe, la theorie du developpement doit embrasser le role des grandes villes et des regions comme elements essentiels et causaux dans le processus de croissance economique. Cette affirmation a de l' importance pour la politique de developpement, surtout pour ce qui est de la promotion des economies d'agglomeration positives et de l'amorcage de la croissance dans les regions defavorisees. Un probleme de politique connexe concerne les facons d'aborder la question du creusement des inegalites interregionales liees a la mondialisation contemporaine. Par la suite, les questions de geographie economique sont d'une importance majeure pour ce qui concerne la theorie du developpement, en principe et en pratique. S COTT A. J. und S TORPER M. (2003) Regionen, Globalisation, Entwicklung, Reg. Studies 37 , 579-593. Regionalwirtschaften sind Synergie-geladene Systeme mit physischen und relationalen Vermogenswerten, welche die immer intensiver werdende Globalisierung nicht entlastet, sondern weiter verstarkt. Regionen als solche stellen eine wesentliche Dimension des Entwicklungsprozesses dar, in den hoher entwickelten Landern wie auch in den weniger entwickelten Teilen der Welt. Entwicklungstheoretiker haben dies kritische Problem meist ubersehen, und stattdessen makro-okonomische Uberlegungen betont. Gleichzeitig haben konventionelle Theorien die Beziehung zwischen Verstadterung und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung die Ansicht vertreten, dass erstere einfach eine Auswirkung der letzteren ist. Um allumfassend zu sein, muss die Theorie der Entwicklung die Rolle der Stadte und Regionen als aktive und kausale Elemente in den wirtschaftlichen Wachstumsprozess einbinden. Dieses Argument hat Folgen fur die Entwicklungspolitik, besonders im Hinblick auf die Forderung der positiven Ballungswirtschaften und der Einleitung eines Wachstumsprozesses in minder bemittelten Regionen. Ein damit verbundenes Problem der Bestrebungen betrifft Arten der Handhabung der zunehmenden interregionalen Ungleichheiten in Verbindung mit der derzeitigen Globalisierung. Fragen der Wirtschaftsgeographie sind damit von grosser Bedeutung fur Theorie und Praxis der Entwicklung.

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  • Allen Scott & Michael Storper, 2003. "Regions, Globalization, Development," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(6-7), pages 579-593.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:37:y:2003:i:6-7:p:579-593
    DOI: 10.1080/0034340032000108697a
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