Course Description
The course provides better understanding of the implications and scope of regional development that may vary according to the definition of a region and how the region and its boundaries are perceived internally and externally. The study offers determination of multiple factors such as natural resource endowments, quality and quantity of labor, capital availability and access, productive and overhead investments, entrepreneurial culture and attitude, physical infrastructures, sectoral structure, technological infrastructure and progress, open mind, public support systems in region for its development. The study contributes the understanding of the making of regions in social, political, and cultural senses, where regional development becomes a field of place and regional identity, regionalism and regionalization, and regional administration and governance.