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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …

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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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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

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Internal Migration and the Spatial Reorganization of Agriculture

Madhok, Raahil; Noack, Frederik; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

urbanization and structural transformation. Using household microdata from India and exogenous variation in migration opportunities …, market adaptation mitigates over three-fourths of the direct agricultural losses from urbanization. Spatial reorganization …

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Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2003

Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundant regions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regions with low skill...

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Globalization and Dirty Industries : Do Pollution Havens Matter?

Grether, Jean-Marie - 2003

This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on production and international trade flows in five heavily polluting industries for 52 countries over the period 1981-98. A new decomposition of revealed comparative advantage...

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Internal Geography, International Trade, and Regional Specialization

Coşar, A. Kerem - 2013

We introduce an internal geography to the canonical model of international trade driven by comparative advantages to study the regional effects of external economic integration. The model features a dual-economy structure, in which locations near international gates specialize in export-oriented...

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The Evolving Geography of China's Industrial Production : Implications for Pollution Dynamics and Urban Quality of Life

Zheng, Siqi - 2013

China's rapid economic growth has been fueled by industrialization and urbanization. Given its export focus, this …

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Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

Delgado, Mercedes - 2012

This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries, clusters and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining...

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Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography : Spatial Selection and Sorting

Baldwin, Richard - 2005

A Melitz-style model of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms is integrated into a simple New Economic Geography model to show that the standard assumption of identical firms is neither necessary nor innocuous. We show that re-locating to the big region is most attractive for the...

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