| Abstract | Regional growth is a complex process. It varies in space and time. The reasons for its variations are that space has not yet been well established especially in developing countries. It is affected by
various factors in its growth process. It varies with geography, demography, employment, education, transportation and communication, public services and infrastructures, government revenue, expenditure and taxes,
housing and others.
The interactions of these factors should be analyzed to understand the underlying pattern and behaviour of regional growth in a region.
The first objective of this study is to identify the growth patterns
existing in Luzono It was accomplished by an analysis of f if ty-five variables associated with regional growth and by. a comparative analysis involving twenty variables.
The first analysis revealed nine patterns, namely: secondary-tertiary sector, manufacturing sector, utilities, sex structure, residential business, primary sector, government assistance,
unemployment, and agricultural technology.
The second analysis revealed
five factors, namely: urbanization, tertiary sector, migration, employment,
government assistance.
It could be noted that both cases were dominated by the variables of urban development.
The second objective of this study is to uncover the causes of growth disparity among provinces. Provincial income per capita was taken as a measure of growth disparity. It was found that provincial income per capita varies with urban population from the analysis of thirty-four variables, while it varies with non-agricultural employment and number of motor vehicles from the analysis of twenty variable so Both results were
shown to reflect urban development Thus the main cause of growth disparity among provinces might be attributable the extent of urban development. |