TY - BOOK ED - World Bank. TI - World development report 2009: Reshaping economic geography SN - 9780821376072 U1 - 330.9 PY - 2009/// CY - Washington PB - World Bank KW - Economic geography N1 - 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 ER -