OECD Regional Outlook 2011
Building Resilient Regions for Stronger Economies
The OECD Regional Outlook 2011 provides an overview of the main developments in performance among OECD regions and the challenges for regional policy after the crisis. The first two chapters present fresh analysis of regional growth and labour-market trends, exploring their implications for policy. This is followed by three chapters offering focused analyses of key policy issues. The first, and most immediate, concerns the state of sub-national government finances in the wake of the crisis and its implications for managing public investment, in particular, during a period of austerity. The next two chapters are concerned with the potential contribution of regions and regional policies to addressing the longer-term challenges of innovation and green growth. Part 3 of the Outlook presents a "policy forum", a wide-ranging debate on the role of regional policy today involving experts and officials from within and outside the OECD. Finally, the Outlook includes individual country pages providing detailed quantitative and qualitative information on regional performance, institutions and policy settings in OECD members.
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Why Location Matters
The Terms of a Debate
This introduction to the OECD Regional Outlook Policy Forum presents a brief overview of the long-running debate over the “New Economic Geography” and its relevance for policy, before reflecting on the significance of this debate for the wider development agenda that is central to this Outlook. The introduction then examines some recent changes in US policy in the context of this discussion. This is followed by brief introductions of the contributions to the debate that follows.
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