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The unexpected increase in the number of census towns (CTs) in the last census has thrust them into the spotlight. Using a hitherto unexploited dataset, it is found that many of the new CTs satisfied the requisite criteria in 2001 itself; mitigating concerns of inflated urbanisation. The new CTs...
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Today’s economic climate is dominated by inter-firms networks, which have become powerful instruments for building economic capacity for regions to compete in the global market place. Industry clusters are recognised as playing a significant role both in regional economic development and in...
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Regional environment creates a set of factors that can be called either stimulants or barriers to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Local governments should remove barriers, transforming them into promoters. An important feature that has to meet both the national...
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In a local economy, the citizens can react on local policy by exit. Exit induces a shift in the housing demand. The local policy may thus capitalize into the housing prices. However, the citizens encounter specific coordination problems on the housing market. Therefore, it may be asked how...
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the market, and the most intense urbanization process on the planet. The aim of this paper is not to discuss the …
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The main objective of this paper is to analyze the recent past trends and patterns of urbanization, urban economic … of urbanization is associated with higher economic growth, lower level of poverty and higher extent of inequality in … urban India. Finally, the study suggests that Indian government needs to speed up the urbanization rate as it contributes …
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Heterogeneous panel causality tests are employed to consider the relationship between urbanization change and economic … that relationship. Urbanization caused economic growth in high income countries, but non-causality could not be rejected …-income, predominately African countries where economic growth had a positive, causal effect on urbanization, but where urbanization, in turn …
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This paper investigates the impact of urbanization on energy consumption by applying the Stochastic Impacts by … that urbanization is a major contributor in energy consumption. Affluence raises energy demand. Capital stock boosts energy … consumption. Trade openness leads affluence and hence increases energy consumption. The causality analysis finds that urbanization …
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The solid waste is increasing in Pune city due to growth of population, urbanization, higher per capita income and … commercial units are higher. Solid waste is inevitable task in urbanization process and it will increase in future. The …
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Urbanization as an important area for development intervention and as a reflection of economic prosperity is … paper outlines the different facets of urbanization process along with the heterogeneity of urbanization process in … of future urban growth in the region. The results depict lopsided urbanization with maximum concentration of population …
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