Growing Apart Regional Prosperity in New Zealand

Shamubeel Eaqub highlights the changing economic fortunes of people in different parts of New Zealand - the growing gaps between our regions.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Eaqub, Shamubeel
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Wellington Bridget Williams Books 2014
Edition1
SeriesBWB Texts
Subjects
2006-2013
Cities and towns
Economic conditions
Growth
Neuseeland
New Zealand
Regional economics
Regionalentwicklung
Regionalökonomik
Sociology, Urban
Urbanization
21st century
New Zealand
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ISBN9781927277614
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1  Many Nations Beneath the Surface -- Different Regional Economies -- Regional Specialisations -- Economic Interconnections -- Differing Performance -- Inequality, Loss of Trust and Poverty -- Secular versus Local Factors -- 2  Forces Beyond Our Control -- Technology and Accelerating Change -- Unstoppable Urbanisation -- Globalisation and Its Discontents -- Ageing Fast -- 3  Consequences of Change -- A Growing Creative Class -- Educated and Connected -- The Provincial Trap -- 4  Voting with Their Feet -- Leaving, Ageing and Arriving -- Reversal of Decline Is Possible -- 5  Call to Action -- Hard Questions -- No Easy Solutions -- Agree on the Problem and the Goal -- Gather Evidence -- Develop a Strategy -- Collaboration -- Review and Refine -- Growing Together -- Notes and Further Reading -- Introducing BWB Texts -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author