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Using case studies, this book encourages readers to view economic development through the lens of growing inequalities and disparities. Such inequalities are clearly becoming more obvious as the worldis better connected, and information is quickly shared. The book's main aim istherefore to direct the efforts of scholars, practitioners and policymakers toswiftly find the balance between the three pillars of sustainable development. The main challenges and focus of each chapter are different and collectively they give an integrated understanding of the phenomenon of sustainable development and its diverse aspects.

Regional disparities. --- Sustainable development.

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"This book is a world-class report by the Asia Competitiveness Institute, updated annually to analyse Indonesia's competitiveness at the provincial level. With 104 indicators covering four environments, the study's unique methodology incorporates comparative strengths and weaknesses. Apart from scores and rankings, what-if policy simulations offer various provinces practical prescriptions to improve overall competitiveness to accelerate economic growth and development in a balanced, fair and sustainable way. Such qualitative and quantitative analyses in collaboration with various stakeholders generate an exciting pathway for Indonesia to attain its rightful place in both the Asian region and global contexts."--

Economic history --- Regional disparities --- Indonesia --- Economic conditions --- Regional disparities.

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Variation in market orientation in individual regions and the weakening of government intervention in regional income redistribution have been mainly responsible for the changes in China's regional economic disparities since 1978. This study suggests that China should accelerate economic growth of its backward interior regions by deepening market-oriented reforms on the one hand, and by strengthening fiscal transfers from richer to poorer regions on the other.

Economic development --- China --- Economic conditions --- Regional disparities.

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"This study analyses the newly available statistical evidence on income distribution in the former Soviet Union both by social group and by republic, and considers the significance of inequalities as a factor contributing to the demise of the Communist regime. Among the topics covered are wage distribution (interbranch and skill differentials and distribution in terms of gender, education, and age), income distribution for the former USSR as a whole, and wage and income distribution patterns for each republic, with analysis of regional differences."--Provided by publisher.

Income distribution --- Income --- Wages --- Regional disparities. --- Soviet Union --- Economic conditions

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"Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, this book reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape--and are shaped by--the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South"--

Clothing trade --- Globalization --- Caribbean Area --- Economic conditions --- Regional disparities.