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Migration and urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher A.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2016
restrictions. Exploting this exogenous variation, we study the effect of migration on urbanisation and the distribution of … migration shocks can foster urbanisation in the medium run. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518151
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Cities and entrepreneurs over time : like a horse and carriage?
Naudé, Wim - 2017
(urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of entrepreneurs. Second, I provide a stylized overview of entrepreneurship and … "smart" cities, "circular" cities, and of sub-urbanisation and secondary city growth. Over time not all cities, and their …, serendipity and context-specificity of global urbanisation implies that there is much that is still unknown about the specifics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772223
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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310834
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Capital fundamentalism and structural transformation
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549818
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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388301
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Institutions and development in MENA region : evidence from the manufacturing sector
Araissi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali - 2015
authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469679
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Secondary towns and poverty reduction : refocusing the urbanization agenda
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631514
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Understanding the experiences of relocatees during forced relocation in Chinese urban restructuring
Li, Xin; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2016
Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced relocation with displacement, which has a negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523166
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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development
De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021
While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484443
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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732097