CORE-PERIPHERY ECONOMIC LINKAGE - A MEASURE OF SPREAD AND POSSIBLE BACKWASH EFFECTS FOR THE WASHINGTON ECONOMY

Many questions regarding economic development should be viewed in a re gional core-periphery framework. A core-periphery input-output model o f the Washington state economy was constructed. The core region suppli ed the periphery with higher-order services while the periphery furnis hed the core with natural resource-based commodities, Weak backward li nkages from major core industries to the periphery lead to rejection o f the growth-pole theory tenet that core growth supports periphery gro wth. Economic growth in the periphery was felt more strongly in the co re because periphery sectors with strong within-region effects general ly had strong impacts in the core.