World development report 2009: Reshaping economic geography/ World Bank. - Washington: World Bank, 2009. - xxiii, 383 p. ill. ; 27 cm.

Overview --
Introduction: place and policy --
Geography in motion --
GIM 1: overcoming distance in North America --
GIM2: Overcoming division in Western Europe --
GIM3: Distance and division in East Asia --
GIM4: Density, distance, and division in sub-Saharan Africa --
Density --
Distance --
Divisions --
Scale economies and agglomeration --
Factor mobility and migration --
Transport costs and specialization --
Concentration without congestion: Managing an integrated portfolio of places --
Utility, not uniformity: Policies to integrate lagging and leading areas --
Winners without borders: Integrating poor countries with world markets.

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