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What is Metropolitan Region

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A city and its near hinterlands. A metro region may involve two cities and the towns in between (e.g., Austin and San Antonio, or Dallas and Fort Worth), or many cities (Silicon Valley, encompassing Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, etc.). Metro regions may cross state (Philadelphia-Camden) or national (Juarez-El Paso) borders.
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Economic Development Alliances
Fred Young Phillips (Alliant International University, USA and Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch061
Abstract
Metropolitan and rural regions around the world compete to attract enterprises (private companies, NGOs, parastatals, and government agencies) that offer wellpaying jobs. Economic globalization and new technologies make necessary, and at the same time make possible, new strategies for economic development (ED). Increasingly, these new strategies involve intraregional and inter-regional alliances.
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