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Overman, Henry G.; Venables, Anthony J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Rapid urbanisation is a major feature of developing countries. Some 2 billion more people are likely to become city … residents in the next 30 years, yet urbanisation has received little attention in the modern development economics literature …. This paper reviews theoretical and empirical work on the determinants and effects of urbanisation. This suggests that there …

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Shifts in economic geography and their causes

Venables, Anthony J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper analyses some of the forces that are changing the spatial distribution of activity in the world economy. It draws on the 'new economic geography' literature to argue the importance of increasing returns to scale and cumulative causation processes in shaping the productivity and...

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Spatial disparities in developing countries: cities, regions and international trade

Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Spatial inequality in developing countries is due to the natural advantages of some regions relative to others and to the presence of agglomeration forces, leading to clustering of activity. This paper reviews and develops some simple models that capture these first and second nature economic...

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Urbanisation patterns: European vs less developed countries

Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

urbanisation took place mainly in the XIX Century, with higher costs of spatial interaction, weaker economics of scale, and less …

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Is Pennine England becoming more Polycentric or more Centripetal? an analysis of commuting flows in a transforming industrial region, 1981-2001

Champion, Tony; Coombes, Mike - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper examines census-derived commuting data for the world’s earliest major urbanindustrial region, now home to 10 million people. Owing its origins to water power from the Pennine rivers, this region now comprises many closely-spaced cities and towns whose distinct identities have been...

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