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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite...
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The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2000
The paper examines whether there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy, or the share of the largest metro area in national urban population. Is there reason to believe many countries have excessive primacy and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471273
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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little …
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Urban Sprawl and Social Capital : Evidence from Indonesian Cities
Civelli, Andrea; Gaduh, Arya; Rothenberg, Alexander D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use detailed data from Indonesian cities to study how variation in density within urban areas affects social capital. For identification, we instrument density with soil characteristics, and control for community averages of observed characteristics. Under plausible assumptions, these...
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Urbanization and its Discontents
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2020
American cities have experienced a remarkable renaissance over the past 40 years, but in recent years, cities have experienced considerable discontent. Anger about high housing prices and gentrification has led to protests. The urban wage premium appears to have disappeared for less skilled...
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The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations : Evidence from Global Big Data
Peri, Giovanni - 2019
urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479679
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Cities in the Developing World
Bryan, Gharad - 2019
The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …
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Relocating or Redefined : A New Perspective on Urbanization in China
Gan, Li - 2019
China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480529
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History and Urban Economics
Hanlon, W. Walker - 2020
urban economics that uses the historical urbanization as a proxy for economic growth, discusses differences between how … economic historians and urban economists think about the relationship between urbanization and growth, and considers how these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481154
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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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