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Public Debt and Economic Geography
Trionfetti, Federico - HAL - 2012
This paper studies the consequences of debt policies on the spatial distribution of output in a two-country model. It departs from the usual set up of local public finance by relaxing the assumption of balanced budget. Further, to single out the pure effect of debt the paper eliminates effects...
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Enlargement and the EU Periphery: The Impact of Changing Market Potential
Brülhart, Marius; Crozet, Matthieu; Koenig, Pamina - HAL - 2004
We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...
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Cities for All: Recent Experiences with Neighborhood Upgrading Programs Title: Ciudades para todos: La experiencia reciente en programas de mejoramiento de barrios
Brakarz, José; Rojas, Eduardo; Greene, Margarita - Inter-American Development Bank
Cities for All examines informal urbanization in Latin America as well as the methodologies being used to design and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943455
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Cities for All: Recent Experiences with Neighborhood Upgrading Programs Title: Ciudades para todos: La experiencia reciente en programas de mejoramiento de barrios
Brakarz, José; Rojas, Eduardo; Greene, Margarita - Inter-American Development Bank
Cities for All examines informal urbanization in Latin America as well as the methodologies being used to design and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772395
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A small model of equilibrium mechanisms in a city
Palma, André De; Proost, Stef; Loo, Saskia Van Der - HAL - 2013
We use a simple economy with two interconnected geographical zones. Individuals can live and work in one of the two zones or can commute between them. This model is used to explore the dynamics of housing and work decisions after a permanent shock in labour demand occurred in one of the two...
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Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? The urban economics model revisited
Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013
We exploit the power of the Alonso-Mills-Muth (AMM) urban economics model and show that various utility functions and plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence of a "rich" center and more complex socio-spatial...
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The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities: Markets and Perception
Powell, Andrew; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Gandelman, Néstor - Inter-American Development Bank
A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a wide variety of topics. This book assesses a method that takes advantage of both types of...
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Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases Title: Gobernar las metrópolis
Slack, Enid; Cuadrado-Roura, Juan R.; Güell, José … - Inter-American Development Bank
literatura disponible y experiencias concretas de ciudades de América Latina, América del Norte y Europa, el libro ofrece a los …
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The Evolution of Urban Concentration around the World: A Panel Approach
Gaviria, Alejandro; Stein, Ernesto H. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
In this paper, we use a panel approach to study population growth in major cities around the world. We find that major cities grow faster in relatively backward economies and in more volatile, faster-growing economies. We also find that the effects of trade policy on the growth of major cities...
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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …
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