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Office: Room 9320 School of International Economic Education Office hours: Monday 10:3012:00 Wednesday 10:3012:00 LESSON 1 WHAT IS A REGION? WHAT IS REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT? A region can be subnational, ., part of a country or it can be supranational, a bination of countries. An example of the latter is when we talk about the region of SouthEast Asia. An example of the former is when we talk about the western provinces of China. For this course, we will be concerned with subnational regions, ., parts of a country. More particularly, we will be concerned with economic disparities between regions of a country. Regional disparities refer to the fact that when a country grows, not all parts of the country may grow equally. This means that, over time, a gap may open up between regions. This gap may be in ine, employment, social development, or all of these. Ine disparities are what we will be mainly concerned with but usually, when a region lags behind in ine, it will also lag in many, perhaps most, other areas as well. Regional development refers to the economic development of a region. Our emphasis will be focused on less developed regions, or what sometimes are simply referred to as poor regions. And how they can be developed so that they catch up with the more developed or rich regions of a country. In the most general sense, regional development is about facilitating/creating development in different parts of a country. But our concern will specifically focus on poor regions and h