Bridging the Economic Divide Within Countries: A Scorecard on the Performance of Regional Policies in Reducing Regional Income Disparities

By R. Shankar, Anwar Shah. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space (2017, unknown): “This observation supports the results of Williamson (1965) and Lessmann (2014) noting an inverted Ushaped relationship between regional inequality and the level of economic development, at least in this particular country group.”
INPUT–OUTPUT ANALYSIS: THE NEXT 25 YEARS (2013, unknown): “Regional heterogeneity exists within country borders (Shankar and Shah, 2003).”
Decentralization's Effects on Educational Outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia (2008, unknown): “Fiszbein (1997), Shankar and Shah (2003), de Oliveira (2002), and Parry (1997) are among the most enthusiastic, finding that decentralization can spur capacity building in local government (Colombia), decrease levels of regional inequality through political competition (a sample of 26 countries),…”
INDONESIA'S CHANGING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (2008, background): “10 See for example Barro and Sala-I-Martin (1991) and Rey and Montouri (1999). cbieDec08b.indb 420 31/10/08 4:53:12 PM The international evidence suggests, fi rst, that regions that are closely connected to the global economy are likely to grow more quickly.”
Regional Inequality and Decentralization: An Empirical Analysis (2012, unknown): “Therefore, the hypothesis of an effect of economic development on the relationship between decentralization and regional inequality can be confi rmed, in line with Shankar and Shah (2003) and Rodríguez and Ezcurra (2010).”
Does decentralization matter for regional disparities? A cross-country analysis (2010, background): “This result is in line with the empirical evidence provided previously by Shankar and Shah (2003) and Gil, Pascual and Rapún (2004) for different country samples.”
A Practitioner’s Guide to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers (2006, background): “Large regional fiscal disparities can be politically divisive and may even create threats of secession (Shankar and Shah 2003).”
Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Disparity: Evidence from Cross-Section and Panel Data (2009, unknown): “Shankar and Shah (2003), Gil Canaleta et al (2004), Rodr|̈guez-Pose and Gill (2004), and Ezcurra and Pascual (2008) make use of cross-country data.”
Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Disparities: Evidence from Several European Union Countries (2008, methodology): “When weighing up the findings of these analyses, moreover, it should be noted that Shankar and Shah (2003) and Gil et al (2004) complete the information provided by the calculation of correlation coefficients with estimates based on convergence equations using cross-sectional data (Barro and…”
Mapping the Regional Divide in Europe: A Measure for Assessing Quality of Government in 206 European Regions (2014, methodology): “8 There are of course several more-advanced techniques for showing within-unit variation, as discussed by Shankar and Shah (2003), such as Gini or Theil indices.”
The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey (2015, unknown): “Many studies show that decentralization tends to be associated with a general reduction in territorial disparities (see, among others, Shankar and Shah, 2003 and Rodríguez-Pose and Gill, 2005).”