Region-centric concepts of development-- The regional question in economic development / Allen J. Scott, Gioacchino Garofoli -- Endogenous development: analytical and policy issues / Antonio Vázquez-Barquero -- Regional development in the Middle East and Africa -- The Arab world : the role of regional production systems in catch-up and convergence / Abdelkader Sid Ahmed -- The dynamics of territorial development in Morocco / Nacer El Kadiri, Jean Lapèze -- Kenya's garment and metal industries : global and local realities / Dorothy McCormick -- Regions and development in mixed economies -- Promise and peril : regional development in China's Pearl River delta and the northeast / Shahid Yusuf -- Industrial clusters in China : the low road versus the high road in cluster development / Jici Wang -- The production organization of the automobile and motorcycle industries in Vietnam / Thi Bich Van Ho -- Technology-intensive clusters in emerging economies -- Contrasting regimes of regional development : the telecommunications equipment industry and computer software industry in India / Balaji Parthasarathy -- Clusters and regional industrial synergies : the electronics industry in Penang and Jalisco / Rajah Rasiah -- Cluster-based strategies for development -- Policy-making for local production systems in Brazil / Wilson Suzigan, João Furtado, Renato Garcia -- Regional development and cluster management: lessons from South Africa / Mike Morris, Justin Barnes -- Regional development and global value chains -- Knowledge, obsolescence, and product segmentation / Isaac Minian -- Regional systems and global chains / Hubert Schmitz.