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Regional Economics and Regional Planning
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O.S. Shrivastava
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Anmol Publications
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US $ 79.55
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N/A
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This book is divided into seven parts:
1. Regions : types : delineation: regional activities.
2. Economics of location: Theories.
3. Regional flows: of capital and labour.
4. Price Theories applied to regions/space.
5. Dynamic Models of Regional Growth.
6. Special Theories of Regional Growth.
7. Multi-level planning; regional planning and project planning.
The grand goal of any nation is to have development with social justice or acceptable redistribution. This is now called “inclusive growth”. Though all the objectives are national objectives, there are spatial/regional components of the same as also components for the targeted groups. This is the disaggregation. The regional growth process is unbalanced because of agglomeration economies, indivisibilities in investment, differences in natural and manpower resourcs, and the uneven spatial distribution of growth advantages and shortcomings. Regional economics promotes inequalities and at the same time aims at bringing equalities through creation of such imbalances that undo the past imbalances!
Growth should not be enclave growth. It is unacceptable that a developed region should be surrounded by many backward or under-developed regions. Regional differences will remain but there should be a movement from divergence to convergence. We need planning for that. Planning is based upon certain. policies, Policies are based upon pure theories. No policy can succeed if it contravenes fundamental truths spelled out in theories.
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