Geography and the correlates of regional growth in the Philippines
| dc.contributor.author | Diaz, Pluto Burgos | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-04T03:58:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-04T03:58:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-03 | |
| dc.description.abstract | There are two facts concerning the correlates of economic growth and geography that is common but is sometimes overlooked. One, all countries in the tropics except probably for Singapore are low or middle-income countries. [2] Two, a survey of the most common characteristics of the most advanced and strong economies of the world would include having a favorable geography. And yet almost all models on economic growth, from the Harrod-Domar model to Solow's Neoclassical model and its later extensions concerning endogenous technology, fail to incorporate any clear relationship concerning geography and growth. The closest attempt in including geographical factors is by citing that land productivity does matter, but even that hardly traces the importance of geography in growth, a fact that even Paul Krugman (1991) observes. In 1998, J. Gallup, J. Sachs, and A. Mellinger wanted to fill this gap in the literature by empirically showing the relationship between geography and economic growth in the world. Their study shed light on general geographic characteristics that affect gross domestic growth of countries. But what does geography have to do with the growth differences across regions in the Philippines? Or does geography even help explain the differences in growth patterns in the country? This paper is essentially an attempt to answer whether certain geographic characteristics are correlated with regional growth in the Philippines and the extent to which these geographic characteristics account for those differences. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/4408 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Regional growth | |
| dc.subject | Human capital | |
| dc.subject | Investment | |
| dc.subject | Urbanization | |
| dc.subject | Industrialization | |
| dc.subject | Economic policy | |
| dc.title | Geography and the correlates of regional growth in the Philippines | |
| dc.type | Thesis |