IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/alf/opaper/2014-03.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Territory and economic development: institutional flaws

Author

Listed:
  • Rui Nuno Baleiras

Abstract

This is a policy paper on the contribution of Portuguese public policies to economic growth and development. Such contribution is mediated by space inasmuch as the effectiveness of public action hinges critically on how policies mobilise regional development drivers. These drivers come out of a digression on economic theory explanations for growth and development which also helps to realise that markets trigger contradictory outcomes and assure neither durable progress everywhere nor long-term real convergence. The international evidence on regional development policies tracked herein unveils two facts: governments may also fail and governments can improve their own performance. Translating lessons from scientific knowledge and international empirical evidence to Portugal allows us to identify a number of flaws in the Portuguese institutional architecture and to recommend solution avenues to make the economic development of Portuguese territories more inclusive and sustainable. These recommendations bet on place-based sectorally integrated approaches which go through a significant improvement in horizontal and vertical governance mechanisms, and the adoption of policy tools headed towards the internalisation of association economies between the three territorial layers of government and the regional development actors in civil society.

Suggested Citation

  • Rui Nuno Baleiras, 2014. "Territory and economic development: institutional flaws," CFP Occasional Papers 03/2014, Portuguese Public Finance Council.
    • Handle: RePEc:alf:opaper:2014-03
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cfp.pt/uploads/publicacoes_ficheiros/territory-and-economic-development.pdf
    File Function: First version, 2014
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Puga, Diego & Venables, Anthony J., 1996. "The Spread of Industry: Spatial Agglomeration in Economic Development," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 10(4), pages 440-464, December.
    2. Schmitz, Hubert, 1999. "Collective Efficiency and Increasing Returns," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 23(4), pages 465-483, July.
    3. Robert Stimson & Roger R. Stough & Peter Nijkamp (ed.), 2011. "Endogenous Regional Development," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 14154, December.
    4. Robert M. Solow, 1956. "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 70(1), pages 65-94.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rui Nuno Baleiras, 2012. "Collective efficiency strategies: a regional development policy contribution for competitiveness enhancement," Chapters, in: Roberta Capello & Tomaz Ponce Dentinho (ed.), Networks, Space and Competitiveness, chapter 9, pages 207-247, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Silvia Rita Sedita & Ivan De Noni & Roberta Apa & Luigi Orsi, 2016. "Measuring how the knowledge space shapes the technological progress of European regions," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 1624, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Aug 2016.
    3. Zaman, Gheorghe & Georgescu, George & Goschin, Zizi & Antonescu, Daniela & Popa, Florina, 2015. "Dezvoltarea economica endogena la nivel regional. Cazul Romaniei [Endogenous economic development at regional level. The case of Romania]," MPRA Paper 70646, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Brach, Juliane & Kappel, Robert, 2009. "Global Value Chains, Technology Transfer and Local Firm Upgrading in Non-OECD Countries," GIGA Working Papers 110, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
    5. Maarten Bosker & Waldo Krugell, 2008. "Regional Income Evolution In South Africa After Apartheid," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 48(3), pages 493-523, August.
    6. Katarzyna Mroczek & Tomasz Tokarski & Mariusz Trojak, 2014. "Grawitacyjny model zróżnicowania rozwoju ekonomicznego województw," Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, issue 3, pages 5-34.
    7. Markus Grillitsch & Mikhail Martynovich & Rune Dahl Fitjar & Silje Haus-Reve, 2021. "The black box of regional growth," Journal of Geographical Systems, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 425-464, July.
    8. Jaap Voeten & Job de Haan & Gerard de Groot, 2009. "Is that Innovation?: Assessing Examples of Revitalized Economic Dynamics among Clusters of Small Producers in Northern Vietnam," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2009-53, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    9. Aldona Standar & Agnieszka Kozera, 2019. "The Role of Local Finance in Overcoming Socioeconomic Inequalities in Polish Rural Areas," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(20), pages 1-28, October.
    10. Hiroaki Sasaki, 2021. "Non‐renewable resources and the possibility of sustainable economic development in an economy with positive or negative population growth," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 73(4), pages 704-720, October.
    11. Funke, Michael & Strulik, Holger, 2000. "On endogenous growth with physical capital, human capital and product variety," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 44(3), pages 491-515, March.
    12. Rao, B. Bhaskara, 2010. "Estimates of the steady state growth rates for selected Asian countries with an extended Solow model," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 46-53, January.
    13. Prof. Dr. Adem KALCA & Resc. Assist. Atakan DURMAZ, 2012. "Diaspora As The Instrument Of Humane Capital," International Journal of Business and Social Research, LAR Center Press, vol. 2(5), pages 94-104, October.
    14. Moe, Espen, 2010. "Energy, industry and politics: Energy, vested interests, and long-term economic growth and development," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 35(4), pages 1730-1740.
    15. Burda, Michael C. & Zessner-Spitzenberg, Leopold, 2024. "Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Price-Driven Growth in a Solow-Swan Economy with an Environmental Limit," IZA Discussion Papers 16771, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    16. Gregory Casey & Ryo Horii, 2023. "A Generalized Uzawa Growth Theorem," ISER Discussion Paper 1215, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
    17. João Juchem Neto & Julio Claeyssen, 2015. "Capital-induced labor migration in a spatial Solow model," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 115(1), pages 25-47, May.
    18. Zhongwei Xing, 2018. "The impacts of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and E-commerce on bilateral trade flows," International Economics and Economic Policy, Springer, vol. 15(3), pages 565-586, July.
    19. Erich Gundlach, 2003. "Growth Effects of EU Membership: The Case of East Germany," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 30(3), pages 237-270, September.
    20. Boikos, Spyridon & Bucci, Alberto & Stengos, Thanasis, 2013. "Non-monotonicity of fertility in human capital accumulation and economic growth," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 38(PA), pages 44-59.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:alf:opaper:2014-03. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Helena Rua (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cfpgvpt.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.