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Regional Disparities in Small Countries (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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Regional Disparities in Small Countries (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
Series: Advances in Spatial Science
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1 2 Daniel Felsenstein and Boris A. Portnov 1 Department of
Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2 Department of
Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of
Haifa, Israel During the Candiot War of 1645-1669, the Ottoman
Sultan Ibrahim I ordered his chief admiral to attack Malta. Fearing
imminent defeat by the superior Venetian forces stationed on the
island, the admiral decided to trick the sultan out of the idea. As
the story goes, he placed a candle on his naval map, allowing the
wax to drip on the tiny island until it was completely covered.
Then he exclaimed in false surprise, "Malta Yok " (There is no
Malta ), and convinced the sultan to sail his fleet to the Island
of Crete instead. Although Malta is not featured in this volume,
most of the countries it covers are of "wax drip" size.
Intuitively, it may be expected that everything in small countries
is diminutive: distances, population, economies, and even regional
inequalities. Thus, at a symposium on "The Challenge of
Development" convened in Israel in 1957 to mark the inauguration of
a new building for the Department of Economics at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, the eminent US economist Simon Kuznets
stated that "developed small states seem to have succeeded in
spreading the fruits of economic growth more widely among their
populations than the larger states at comparable levels of income
per capita."
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