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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

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Of cities and slums

Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; … - 2016

The emergence of slums is a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and …

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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil

Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

positive effects of urbanization depend on the skilled and unskilled working together, a form of integration that is more …

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The Slow Decline of East Germany

Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...

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The interest group theory of financial development: Evidence from regulation

Hauner, David; Prati, Alessandro; Bircan, Cagatay - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 3, pp. 895-906

We use a new dataset of de jure measures of trade, capital account, product market, and domestic financial regulation for 91 countries from 1973 to 2005 to test Rajan and Zingales’s (2003) interest group theory of financial development. In line with the theory, we find strong evidence that...

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Urban and rural energy use and carbon dioxide emissions in Asia

Krey, Volker; O'Neill, Brian C.; van Ruijven, Bas; … - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) S3, pp. 272-272

The process of urbanization has been shown to be important for economic development, environmental impacts and human … integrated assessment models that are capable of analyzing different aspects of urbanization. The comparison focuses on … residential sector energy use and related CO2 emissions based on a set of urbanization scenarios for China and India. Important …

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Note on urbanization in China: Urban definitions and census data

Qin, Bo; Zhang, Yu - In: China Economic Review 30 (2014) C, pp. 495-502

urbanization process had accelerated during the period 2000–2010, with an increase of the urbanization rate from 36.09% to 49 … and understanding the urbanization process in China. …

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Political economy of suicide: financial reforms, credit crunches and farmer suicides in India

Sadanandan, Anoop - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 287-307

Over 250,000 farmers have committed suicide in India since the mid-1990s. Studies – both case studies of states and at the individual-level - attribute these deaths to credit crunches in the agrarian sector and increased debt burden among farmers. Most of the farm suicides have, however, taken...

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Large-Scale Labour Market Restructuring and Labour Mobility: the Experiences of East Germany and Poland

Sena, Vania - In: The European Labour Market. Regional Dimensions

A simple theoretical framework is presented, enabling the assessment of the government’s role in industrial and regional labour reallocation that follow from large-scale restructuring in the labour market. The experiences of East Germany and Poland in this regard are then compared and...

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Introduction

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - In: The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement. A New …

The aim of this book is to contribute to the debate on the continuity/fracture of regional patterns of development and employment in old and new European Union (EU) regions. Several contributions in this book suggest that a factor common to all backward regions, often neglected in the...

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