The desire to develop one’s region is strongly shared by voters, politicians and even some investors across the world. Various reasons explain this desire. In the case of voters, it can be explained by factors that bring about both psychic and financial rewards. Psychic rewards are associated with civic pride and personal identity, living in one’s birthplace, admiring its natural beauties, and so on. Financial rewards result from employment opportunities and the continued use of an existing stock of capital. Politicians may genuinely desire greater levels of development for their regions and they also need to respond to their constituencies’ desires and how they vote. Politicians will often attempt to implement development policies, for example, by spending in their districts money raised by taxes, preferably paid by other individuals than their own voters, to attract investment. This may be done through a variety of means such as offering tax breaks and direct subsidies to investors, offering new or improved public infrastructure such as road access or serviced lots and offering a better trained labor force through both investor specific training programs and more generally investments in the human capital of residents of their region.