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“Where economic growth is sustained over long time periods, its incidence works towards a progressive integration of the space economy.” Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Population and Settlement Geography

The space economy is the spatial organisation of production, exchange and flows — the pattern of cores, peripheries and the linkages binding them; integration means rising functional interdependence among regions, not mere proximity.

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  • Friedmann's Four-Stage Sequence: The Statement as Stage IV
  • Mechanisms by Which Sustained Growth Integrates Space
  • Market and Factor Mechanisms
  • Infrastructural and Institutional Mechanisms
  • The Convergence Evidence: Where the Statement Holds
  • The Counter-Case: Cumulative Causation and Agglomeration Lock-In
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