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Services and regional development
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Abstract The purpose of this contribution is to discuss what roles the different economic
sectors, and in particular services activities (the tertiary sector) play in regional
development, understood as growth in production, incomes and employment in weakly
developed regions. This question is approached i... view more
The purpose of this contribution is to discuss what roles the different economic
sectors, and in particular services activities (the tertiary sector) play in regional
development, understood as growth in production, incomes and employment in weakly
developed regions. This question is approached in two ways. The contribution first
contains a - primarily theoretical - re-examination of the so-called economic base model,
which states that services play a passive role in regional development. The discussion
leads to substantial modifications of the model. The second approach is more empirical. It
will take as its point of departure the proposition - often heard, but rarely examined - that
since service activities are more concentrated in big cities than other activities and in
recent decades have shown higher growth rates than other economic activities, it follows
that the economic development is now pulled towards big city regions. Examined by way of
a statistical analysis in Denmark and France, this proposition could not be verified.... view less
Keywords
regional development; tertiary sector; growth; Denmark; France; large city; small town; rural area
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 3-15
Journal
Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 1 (2009) 1
ISSN
2067-4082
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed