ABOUT THIS BOOK; INTRODUCTION; KEYNOTE ADDRESS; KEYNOTE ADDRESS Rethinking Economic Growth in a Globalizing World: An Economic Geography Lens; KEYNOTE ADDRESS Africa: Rethinking Growth and Regional Integration; Part I: Macro Trends: Spatial Patterns of Economic Activity, Income, and Poverty; Spatial Patterns of Population and Economic Activity in the Developing World; Some Stylized Facts about Rural Poverty and Geography and a Question for Policy; Part II: New Economic Geography and the Dynamics of Technological Change -- Implications for Less-Developed Countries
Summary
The Berlin Workshop Series 2009 presents selected papers from meetings held from September 30 - October 2, 2007, at the 10th Annual Forum co-hosted by InWEnt and the World Bank in preparation for the Bank's World Development Report. At the 2007 meetings, key researchers and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries met to identify and brainstorm on agriculture the development challenges and successes that are later examined in-depth in the World Development Report 2009. This volume presents papers from the Berlin Workshop sessions on issues relating to Understanding
