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Despite the voluminous literature on direct foreign investment in the 1960s and 1970s, the empirical evidence on spillovers from foreign sources of equity investment remains slim. This chapter draws on new data sources for Cote d'lvoire, Morocco, and Venezuela to explore two related questions....
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The paper describes the first steps of Cote d'Ivoire national strategy to fight against HIV/AIDS and the role played by international partners. It stresses the problems encountered in defining that strategy, and the inequities between patients that have been introduced by the political choice...
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This paper explores the concept of city ranking as a way to measure dynamics and complexities of urban life. These rankings have various dimensions and uses. Both the context in which these rankings are done, and their nature has changed considerably overtime. These rankings are also afflicted...
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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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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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early demographic transition (before 1950) are much richer than latecomers, suggesting that urbanization plays a more … urbanization are substitutable factors that trigger the country’s demographic transition. Finally, if one accepts the premise that …
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Transylvania and Hungary, I have pursued to dignify and quantify different aspects of the urbanization degree in the Arad County … urbanization was evident along the eighteenth century both in terms of population growth and a great social mobility and also in … eighteenth century were the basement of the future process of urbanization of Arad County in the century that has followed. …
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. Urbanization and informal sector are joint and rising trends in these countries. The informal sector represents a significant part …
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Urban water demand is rapidly growing in India due to high growth in urban population and rapid industrialization … capacities of large cities to respond to the growing water demands, induced by population growth and urbanization. The future …
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income, unemployment, migration, education, demographic factors such as population density and birth rate and urbanization …
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