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Subways and Urban Growth : Evidence from Earth

Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco - 2018

We investigate the relationship between the extent of a city's subway network, its population and its spatial configuration. For the 632 largest cities in the world we construct panel data describing population, measures of centralization calculated from lights at night data, and the extent of...

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Does Investment in National Highways Help or Hurt Hinterland City Growth?

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2018

We investigate the effects of the recently constructed Chinese national highway system on local economic outcomes. On average, roads that improve access to local markets have small or negative effects on prefecture economic activity and population. However, these averages mask a distinct pattern...

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Subways and Urban Air Pollution

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2018

We investigate the relationship between the opening of a city's subway network and its air quality. We find that particulate concentrations drop by 4% in a 10km radius disk surrounding a city center following a subway system opening. The effect is larger near the city center and persists over...

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Urbanization in the Developing World : Too Early or Too Slow?

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2020

We describe patterns of urbanization in the developing world and the extent to which they differ from the developed … world. We consider the extent to which urbanization in the developing world can be explained by conventional models of … structural transformation has suggested that urbanization in the developing is occurring `too early', while another strand argues …

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Government, Financial Markets, and Economic Development

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 1991

Ideological debates on the role of government in development have focused on two contrasting prescriptions: one calling for large scale government interventions to solve problems of massive market failures, the other for the unfettering of markets, with the dynamic forces of capitalism naturally...

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Markets and Development

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 1989

This paper explores the causes and consequences of the more important market failures which impede the development of LOCs, and explains why the non-market institutions which often ameliorate the effects of market failures in developed countries are less effective- in doing so in LOCs. This...

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Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development

Korinek, Anton; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Progress in artificial intelligence and related forms of automation technologies threatens to reverse the gains that developing countries and emerging markets have experienced from integrating into the world economy over the past half century, aggravating poverty and inequality. The new...

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Real Exchange Rate Policies for Economic Development

Guzman, Martin - 2017

This paper analyzes the role of real exchange rate (RER) policies in promoting economic development. Markets provide a suboptimal amount of investment in sectors characterized by learning spillovers. We show that a stable and competitive RER policy may correct for this externality and other...

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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity

Hoff, Karla - 2010

Australia to justify their policies towards the Aborigines entailed in effect the expulsion of the Aborigines from the human …

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