Includes bibliographical references and index World development report 2009: Reshaping economic geography: overview. (2008). Washington, DC: World Bank.

Geography in motion: overcoming distance in North America -- Part 1: Seeing development in 3-D -- Density -- Distance -- Division -- Geography in motion: overcoming divisions in Western Europe -- Part 2: Shaping economic geography -- Scale economies and agglomeration -- Factor mobility and migration -- Transport costs and specialization -- Geography in motion: distance and division in East Asia -- Concentration without congestion: policies for an inclusive urbanization -- unity, not uniformity: effective approaches to territorial development -- Winners without borders: integrating poor countries with world markets -- Geography in motion: density, distance, and division in sub-Saharan Africa