Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review

To accelerate growth and create jobs, the Western Balkans and Croatia will need faster economic growth generated by advanced industries and services that usually concentrate in cities. Raising the competitiveness of leading cities will thus be the...

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Main Author:	World Bank Group
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	URBANIZATION URBAN PLANNING URBAN POVERTY SPATIAL ECONOMICS SPATIAL DISPARITY CAPITAL CITY EU INTEGRATION CITY COMPETITIVENESS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS WELFARE EFFECTS SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY LAGGING REGION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/404331565242902772/Main-Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32308

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spelling	okr-10986-323082021-09-21T12:21:01Z Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review World Bank Group URBANIZATION URBAN PLANNING URBAN POVERTY SPATIAL ECONOMICS SPATIAL DISPARITY CAPITAL CITY EU INTEGRATION CITY COMPETITIVENESS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS WELFARE EFFECTS SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY LAGGING REGION To accelerate growth and create jobs, the Western Balkans and Croatia will need faster economic growth generated by advanced industries and services that usually concentrate in cities. Raising the competitiveness of leading cities will thus be the priority for growth and job creation in the region. At the same time addressing the challenges of places left behind will be increasingly important for shared prosperity and sustainable growth. European Union (EU) accession, technological changes, and globalization are most likely to create growth opportunities that will favor cities and their agglomeration economies. These trends, if left unchecked, are also more likely to increase spatial welfare disparities. This report advocates for a stronger focus on cities, especially capital cities and their metro regions, as engines of growth and job creation. It also argues for policymakers to focus on lagging regions to address spatial welfare disparities likely to increase with the concentration of people and economic activity in fewer places. 2019-08-21T20:36:56Z 2019-08-21T20:36:56Z 2019-10 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/404331565242902772/Main-Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32308 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Urban Study Europe and Central Asia Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Kosovo North Macedonia (Formerly the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) Montenegro Serbia
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topic	URBANIZATION URBAN PLANNING URBAN POVERTY SPATIAL ECONOMICS SPATIAL DISPARITY CAPITAL CITY EU INTEGRATION CITY COMPETITIVENESS AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS WELFARE EFFECTS SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY LAGGING REGION
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description	To accelerate growth and create jobs, the Western Balkans and Croatia will need faster economic growth generated by advanced industries and services that usually concentrate in cities. Raising the competitiveness of leading cities will thus be the priority for growth and job creation in the region. At the same time addressing the challenges of places left behind will be increasingly important for shared prosperity and sustainable growth. European Union (EU) accession, technological changes, and globalization are most likely to create growth opportunities that will favor cities and their agglomeration economies. These trends, if left unchecked, are also more likely to increase spatial welfare disparities. This report advocates for a stronger focus on cities, especially capital cities and their metro regions, as engines of growth and job creation. It also argues for policymakers to focus on lagging regions to address spatial welfare disparities likely to increase with the concentration of people and economic activity in fewer places.
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title	Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review
title_short	Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review
title_full	Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review
title_fullStr	Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review
title_full_unstemmed	Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review
title_sort	western balkans and croatia urbanization and territorial review
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/404331565242902772/Main-Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32308
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Western Balkans and Croatia Urbanization and Territorial Review

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