Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46655
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
UPSE Discussion Paper No. 2010,01
Publisher: 
University of the Philippines, School of Economics (UPSE), Quezon City
Abstract: 
Many developing countries exhibit imbalanced spatial development, but corrective policies are hampered by lack of adequate sub-regional development data. Building on the insights of the factor price equalization theorem and by applying measures of spatial autocorrelation on land values, patterns of local development and linkages in the Philippines are traced. Evidence of convergene in provincial and urban land values is found in 1986-2000, although the clustering is more local than global. Thus, greater infrastructure investments and use of land values by local governments as policy guides should be made to facilitate in-counrty trade and migration, and to disperse growth.
Subjects: 
Spatial development
land values
convergence
Philippines
JEL: 
O18
R12
R14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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