Poverty hotspots and the correlates of subnational development

Abstract Economic prosperity is unevenly distributed across geography, even within national boundaries. As national incomes converge, many subnational areas within countries show widening disparities. Much of the evidence of subnational growth is hampered by inadequate attention to the spatial clustering of economic development. [author-bio] We seek to explain the determinants of subnational growth by taking … Continue reading Poverty hotspots and the correlates of subnational development