Table of Contents

1: Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables: Introduction
2: Bettina Aten and Alan Heston: Regional Output Differences in International Perspective
3: Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, Berk Ozler and Kenneth R. Simler: Are Neighbors Equal? Estimating Local Inequality in Three Developing Countries
4: Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein: Market Size, Linkages and Productivity: A Study of Japanese Regions
5: Martin Ravallion: Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China
6: Carlos Azzoni, Naercio Menezes-Filho and Tatiane Menezes: Opening the Convergence Black Box: Measurement Problems and Demographic Aspects
7: Javier Escobal and Maximo Torero: Adverse Geography and Differences in Welfare in Peru
8: Jed Friedman: How Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Indonesia, 1984-1999
9: Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery and Stefano Paternostro: Reforms, Remoteness and Risk in Africa: Understanding Inequality and Poverty During the 1990s
10: Andres Rodriguez-Pose and Javier Sanchez-Reaza: Economic Polarization Through Trade: Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico
11: Songhua Lin: International Trade, Location and Wage inequality in China
12: Dirk Willem te Velde and Oliver Morrissey: Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African Countries
13: Michael Forster, David Jesuit and Timothy Smeeding: Regional Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
14: Ruslan Yemtsov: Quo Vadis: Inequality and Poverty Dynamics Across Russian Regions

About the Author

Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics at Cornell University and has been Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank. Anthony J. Venables is Professor of International Economics at the London School of Economics and has been Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton and Trade Research Manager at the World Bank.

Reviews

This book, edited by two internationally recognized leaders in development economics and economic geography ... is highly recommended to scholars within peace research - especially those working on distributional issues and violent conflict. Journal of Peace Research This volume will be useful to the scholarly community. Journal of Peace Research May 2006