Racing ahead or lagging behind? Territorial cohesion in human development around the globe
Permanyer, Iñaki (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)
Suppa, Nicolai (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	This paper investigates whether global improvements in human development involve subnational regions in a territorially cohesive way. We use a subnational human development index for 1778 regions within 163 countries over three decades, and propose measures for relative over- and under-performance. We find that frequently observed reductions of within-country inequality are not necessarily accompanied by reductions in under- and over-performance. Moreover, from a global perspective, we detect the presence of a non-negligible set of under-developing subnational regions spanning across 30+ countries that fail to catch-up with the world average human development.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Human development ; Inequality ; Regional disparities ; Territorial cohesion
Published in:	Regional studies, Vol. 56, Núm. 12 (2022) , p. 2086-2101, ISSN 0034-3404

DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2038785

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