Document on territorial competitiveness.
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Sustainable Territorial Competitiveness is an interesting concept to be taken into account when promoting economic development in a territory. Without too much going into detail I would like to add two questions to the debate.
The first concerns the countries in special development circumstances, i.e. in post conflict situations. Can territorial sustainable economic development being achieved by striving simultaniously towards an equilibrium between economic, social, cultural and environmental development? Or is the predominant need to kickstart economic development in response to basic development needs not to be prioritised and only in a second stage the full sustainable terroitorial development concept to be applied.
Secondly I would like to refer to the latest World Economic Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography. This report provides a policy framework for territorial development - highlighting that public policy should focus on increasing interaction between economically lagging areas and leading areas - and not be exclusivley concerned with stimulating growth of places left behind by firms and workers.
In applying this policy findings to a specific country (Sri Lanka) it is argued that making sufficient investments in a territory lagging behind will reap much less results (as funds are limited) than connecting people to the places of prosperity, in our case Colombo and the Western Province. Investing into labor migration and mobility is the policy advice provided by the WB.
This policy does not leave out the social side completley as it simultanousley demands to make social, eductaional and health services equally available in all territories.
I am not arguing that this obviously very economy focused point of view is the way forward. However, I would be interested to see if this concept of prospering places and its role in uplifting socio-economic standards in a country could inform to a certain extend our discussion on sustainable competitiveness of a territory.
In other words, would it be legitimate to expand the concept of sustainable territorial competitiveness by also including the inter territorial dynamics and the concept of prosperious places?
That would mean that sustainable LED strategies should also be informed by the positive stimulating role propserious places could play.
Once more the question seems to be a bit linked to the development stage a territory is in. A lagging territory might want to decide to build upon such economically stimulating prosperous places whereas an already well developed and economically strong territory might well be in a position to concentrate on further developing its own prosperious places.
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