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The Backward Region of Fribourg in Switzerland

In: Backward Areas in Advanced Countries

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  • Jean Valarché

    (University of Fribourg)

Abstract

Switzerland has one of the most highly developed economies in the world, but there are appreciable differences in the level of development as between one canton and another. This may seem astonishing in so small a country; the explanation lies in natural and human divisions. Factors of production do not easily move between cantons, and there is no large-scale federal expenditure to equalise opportunities between unequally well-endowed regions. Yet a poor canton does not compare with a rich canton in the same terms that a depressed area compares with an advanced one, and this is one reason why the case of backward regions in Switzerland is of special interest.

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  • Jean Valarché, 1969. "The Backward Region of Fribourg in Switzerland," International Economic Association Series, in: E. A. G. Robinson (ed.), Backward Areas in Advanced Countries, chapter 7, pages 144-161, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-15315-2_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15315-2_7
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