Subject(s): Regional planning -- Industrial clusters -- Industrial location -- Industries -- Developing countries -- Region-centric concepts of development : Regional question in economic development, endogenous development- analytical and policy issues -- Regional development in middle east and Africa : Arab world- role of regional production system in catch-up and convergence, dynamics of territorial development in Morocco, Kenya's garment and metal industries- global and local realities -- Regions and development in mixed economies : Regional development in China's pearl river delta and northeast, industrial cluster in China- low road v/s high road in cluster development, production organization of the automobile and motorcycle industries in Vietnam -- Technology-intensive cluster in emerging economies : Contrasting regimes of regional development - telecommunications equipment industry and computer software industry in India, cluster and regional industrial synergies- electronics industries in Penang and Jalisco -- Cluster-based strategies for development : Policy-making for local production systems in Brazil, regional development and cluster management in south Africa -- Regional development and global value chains : Knowledge, obsolescence and product segmentation, regional systems and global chains