spillovers, the distance from urban and intermediate regions has a negative effect on the population growth rate of rural regions …The objective of this paper is to better understand how the population growth rates of rural regions are affected by …-based measures are used to approximate the extent to which urban and rural areas are integrated in relational terms. Results shows …

whether the degree and type of urban concentration affects this relationship. Both income inequality and urban concentration … sensitive to the type of urban structure. Higher inequalities seem to be more detrimental for growth in large cities, while … regions characterised by small cities and rural areas are less affected. …

, where productivity is higher and has increased further thanks to agglomeration effects. In the process, the rural-urban …

, where productivity is higher and has increased further thanks to agglomeration effects. In the process, the rural-urban …

and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

We consider a microfounded urban growth model with two regions and a mass of mobile workers to study interactions among … growth, agglomeration, and urban congestion. Unlike previous research in the urban growth literature, we formulate the model …

population. The empirical hybrid lognormal-power-law distribution revealed may be characteristic of other key distributions, such …