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Forum Finanz: World Development Report 2009 - Reshaping Economic Geography

We are familiar with the sectoral transformations needed for economic growth - the changes in work and organization as agrarian economies become industrialized and service oriented. The World Bank‘s WDR 2009 discusses the spatial transformations that also must happen for countries to develop. Today, policy discussions about geographic disparities in development often start and end with a consideration of spatially targeted interventions.

The Report reframes these debates to include all instruments for economic integration - institutions, infrastructure, and incentives. The bedrock of integration efforts should be spatially blind institutions. Higher densities, shorter distances, and lower divisions will remain essential for economic success in the foreseeable future. They should be encouraged. With them will come unbalanced growth. When accompanied by policies for integration calibrated to the economic geography of nations, these changes also will bring inclusive development - sooner, not much later.

Die Veranstaltung wird in englischer Sprache abgehalten.

Das Bundesministerium für Finanzen, Abteilung V/7 – Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Kommunikation im Zusammenwirken mit der Abteilung III/3 - Internationale Finanzinstitutionen lädt am

Donnerstag, dem 25. Juni 2009 um 18.00 Uhr in das
Bundesministerium für Finanzen
Hintere Zollamtsstraße 2b
1030 Wien
Dr. Peter Quantschnigg Saal

zu dem Vortrag:

World Development Report 2009 - Reshaping Economic Geography

Moderation:	Marcus Heinz
	Head of the Division for International Financial Institutions, Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance
Presentation:	Indermit Gill
	Chief Economist, Europe and Centra Asia Region, World Bank
Contributions:	Manfred Schnitzer
	Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs

	Herwig Palme
	Vienna University of Economics and Business