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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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The informal settlements in Butuan City, Philippines pose the intractable problem of housing and providing services for the urban poor. They exact tremendous costs to government infrastructure projects and the city as a whole. In this study, these costs are accounted for, particularly the costs...
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This paper outlined the urbanization as well as the development of the industrial parks and transportation … growing very fast during the past 20 years. It has not, however, caught up with the rapid urbanization and industrial park …
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living cost level is found to be an increasing function of population density, average income, and the degree of urbanization …
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This paper explores whether biological mechanisms, induced by the overpopulation of a territory, exert essential influence on cities' growth, and whether the level of economic development of a country is significant, when biological mechanisms are in operation. To answer these questions, four...
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This study finds that ID theft rates tend to be an increasing function of the unemployment rate and the proportion of the population concentrated in urban areas, and a decreasing function of the relative amount of resources devoted to laws enforcement and the percentage of individuals who claim...
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This study aims to explore the relationship between economic growth, urbanization, financial development and … relationship between urbanization and electricity consumption is also inverted U-shaped. This implies that urbanization increases … electricity consumption initially and after a threshold level of urbanization, electricity demand falls. The causality analysis …
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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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, urbanization and female labour force participation play in determining fertility of women in Pakistan. ARDL bound testing approach … urbanization, female labour force participation and female education in Pakistan. The analysis indicates that there is negative … relationship between all three determinants with fertility. Female education and urbanization of the society play significant role …
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Given the indisputable fact that urbanization has long become the cornerstone of industrialization and development … efforts in India, this paper specifically takes up the issues of urbanization as related to energy usage and sustainability … issues. We find that urbanization has followed a model that is neither energy-efficient, nor, for the very same reasons …
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