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Theoretical models of urban growth are surveyed in a common framework. Exogenous growth models, where growth in some capital stock as a function of investment is assumed, are examined first. Then endogenous growth models, where use of some factor by a firm increases the productivity of other...
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The study of the territorial/regional development in Spain has nowadays a relatively long tradition, but from the point of view of cities development the number of studies and documents decreases drastically. This paper tries to improve the knowledge of the Spanish urban system. The aim of this...
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The city size distribution of many countries is remarkably well approximated by a Pareto distribution. We study what constraints this regularity imposes on standard urban models. We find that under general conditions urban models must have (i) a balanced growth path and (ii) a Pareto...
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making traffic flow more efficiently in a given infrastructure. Furthermore, the virtual world gives rise to new business … continues to drive qualitative improvements in traffic conditions, e-business and telework in particular have, for structural … reasons, a much less pronounced effect on traffic than widely presumed. ICT helps in organising traffic flows more efficiently …
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In July 2003 a new Road Code was approved by the Italian parliament. Among many reforms whose validity is not questioned here, the new law states that on three-lane motorways the right lane should not be reserved anymore to slow vehicles alone. As in two-lane roads, all vehicles must now drive...
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The interest rate and the rate of economic growth are often regarded as roughly constant as economies grow. Moreover, the agricultural sector and rural population typically shrink. We show that an otherwise standard growth model that includes a backward and an advanced sector can account for...
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The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in two regional terms, i.e.: kabupaten and kotamadya. It is interestingly found that the rank in all kabupaten respect to the population does not have fat tail properties, while in...
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This study from the World Bank calls for a rebalancing of policy discussions and shows how to use the three dimensions of density, distance, and division to tailor policy instruments to address integration challenges ranging from the relatively straightforward to the very complex.
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Infrastructure at the Crossroads brings together lessons from the last two decades of World Bank engagement in infrastructure. It analyzes trends in the Bank's infrastructure lending, describes the evolution of the external environment and the Bank's own strategic priorities, and presents...
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to attract private investors to create jobs in cities. This report also distills lessons from prototypes urbanization …, Indonesia), and mature (Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, Turkey) urbanization. These diagnostics under the World Bank …'s Urbanization Review program have engaged strategic counterparts, such as those in national ministries of finance and planning, in …
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