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Regional Trade Facilitation Matters Crucially for Lagging Areas Priorities for Improving Spillover Connectivity Electronic Proximity: New Tool for the Integration of Lagging Areas Endnotes References
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6 Policy Package 3. Underpin Private Sector Interest in Nonleading Areas
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Difficulty and Expense of Using Public Money to Lure Development to Lagging Areas MENA’s Focus on Using Public Resources to Override Economies of Agglomeration Financial Incentives to Steer the Spatial Pattern of Development Have Not Been Successful New Paradigm of Regional Economic Development Policy Realizing Agricultural Potential through Clusters Conclusion Endnotes References
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7 Proximity for All: Public Institutions for Spatial Policies
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Spatial Disparities: A Big Task for the State How States Organize and Mobilize to Address the Spatial Dimension of Policy Conclusion: Keeping Spatial Development Simple Endnotes References
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Appendix: MENA Region
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Index
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List of Boxes Box 1.1
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Convergence Trends for the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tunisia, and the Arab Republic of Egypt Ibn Khaldun and the Political Economy of Spatial Disparities
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