Análisis espacial del desarrollo económico rural a nivel territorial

This paper describes some of the methodological approaches used in the research work done for the Doctoral Thesis of J. Calzadilla, Spatial econometric model analysis of economic development in rural territories. By the utilization of selected indexes for the territorial description of the social and economic factors, the rural population and employment are modelled by linear expressions, which are analysed by spatial regression, and the model error is represented geographically by choropleths over the Spanish provinces map. This spatial analysis provides a mean to explore how the social and economical factors impact the rural development, and the development policies.Este trabajo presenta algunas de las metodologías utilizadas en las investigaciones realizadas de la Tesis Doctoral de J. Calzadilla, Modelos de análisis econométrico espacial aplicados al desarrollo económico del territorio rural. Partiendo de la identificación de índices para el análisis socioeconómico a nivel territorial se estudia la casualidad de los factores que afectan a la población y el empleo mediante modelos regresivos espaciales, y su representación mediante coropletas a nivel del mapa geográfico de provincias de España. Este análisis espacial de los resultados permite explorar como los factores socioeconómicos distribuidos a nivel territorial inciden en el desarrollo económico rural, pudiendo contrastarse políticas de desarrollo.This paper describes some of the methodological approaches used in the research work done for the Doctoral Thesis of J. Calzadilla, Spatial econometric model analysis of economic development in rural territories. By the utilization of selected indexes for the territorial description of the social and economic factors, the rural population and employment are modelled by linear expressions, which are analysed by spatial regression, and the model error is represented geographically by choropleths over the Spanish provinces map. This spatial analysis provides a mean to explore how the social and economical factors impact the rural development, and the development policies