This chapter focuses on regional policies in developing countries. Diversity in the regional problems of developing countries and in the social and economic policies designed to alleviate these problems reflects not only different levels of development and the systems of government, but also...

This chapter reviews the innovation and changes made in regional structure. Innovation or technological change is a principal source of change in the economic structure of regions and nations. Although innovation has been studied as a critical variable in the production and management of firms...

This chapter focuses on regional energy and environmental analysis. A basic feature of economic activity is the extraction of materials from the environment, their transformation during production and consumption, and their final restoration to the environment. The economics of environmental...

This chapter focuses on regional labor market analysis. Regional labor market analysis entails a synthesis of economic and demographic modeling. Migration alters population levels, and thus together with labor force participation rates determines labor supply. Population change also affects...

This chapter discusses the concept of multiple objective decision analysis in regional economics. Until the end of the 1960s, decision analysis was still dominated by simple optimization methods, such as single objective programming, cost-benefit analysis, and fixed target approaches. As a...

This chapter discusses qualitative statistical models for regional economic analysis. Traditionally, the statistical modeling conducted in regional economic research has focused on the analysis of high-level, metric, or quantitative data measured at the ratio or interval scales. The tradition...

This chapter focuses on regional econometric and dynamic models. Regional econometric models are concerned with the description, analysis, forecasting, and policy appraisal of economic development within a set of localities or regions. Such models concern not only internal structures and...

This chapter presents an overview of spatial interaction, transportation, and interregional commodity flow models. Spatial interaction and transportation models are used to facilitate the explanation and prediction of patterns of human and economic interaction over geographic space. Theoretical...

This chapter focuses on regional, interregional, and multiregional input-output analysis. Unlike many other branches of regional economics and regional science, the development of regional and interregional models occurred almost contemporaneously with the growth of interest in national-level...

This chapter reviews a concise survey and a set of reflections concerning current regional and multiregional economic models. The notation current refers to the situation around the mid-1980s. A number of reviews of multiregional economic models undertaken in the first half of the 1980s forms...