Convergence
Convergence Policy makers across the Middle East and North Africa have for many years articulated plans to integrate their people spatially and economically. Yet the results of these place-based…
Specifikacia Convergence
Convergence
Policy makers across the Middle East and North Africa have for many years articulated plans to integrate their people spatially and economically. Yet the results of these place-based initiatives in MENA are limited. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in transport corridors and "new cities." Hoping to provide jobs in places with little economic activity, governments have designated new industrial zones supported by spatially targeted business incentives.
Across much of the region, a fortunate few are connected to opportunity, while many more people are marginal to the formal economy--or live outside it, seemingly forgotten. The disparities between capital cities and lagging areas, and between richer and poorer quarters of cities, remain stark. Why have place-based spatial initiatives in MENA countries largely
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