Third, increasing spatial inequality. Some regions, especially urban and
coastal areas, are better able to respond to the new opportunities because of
their advantages in infrastructure and market access, as well as agglomeration
economies from a self-perpetuating process of increasing concentration. The
process of urbanization reinforces the inequality effects of agglomeration. Our
analysis shows that in many Asian countries, about 30–50% of income inequality
is accounted for by spatial inequality due to uneven growth