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ow they can be made to “catchup” to the national average in development. This means that we want to look at why differences exist in the first place and what can be done about it in the second place. There is a difference between ? Asking how to encourage development in a region ? Asking how to make all regions equal in terms of development and ? Asking how to narrow the gap in ine and other indicators between regions. None of these will necessarily involve the same targets and/or programs for achieving those targets. Another major question in this regard that needs to be addressed is whether a goal of at least narrowing the gap between regions, if not making them equal, requires government involvement. One school of thought argues that the market will not create equality across regions and therefore, government intervention is required if this result is to be achieved. An alternative view is that government intervention prevents the market adjustment mechanism from working and thus interferes with solving the problem rather than providing a solution. In many respects, the issue of regional development is parable to the issue of international development. The former is concerned with how to encourage development in less developed regions of a country and narrow the gap in economic wellbeing between regions while the latter is concerned with the same questions but at the country level. But there is a significant difference between the case of regions within a country and whole countries and this has to d