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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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Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the … power source by manufacturers during industrialization contributed to urbanization. While the data indicate that steam … contribute substantially to urbanization …
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between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal …
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Industrial revolution is fundamentally linked with the rise of factories and the decline of skilled artisans in manufacturing. Most scholars agree that factories as compared to artisan shops were intensive in unskilled labor. Indeed, the hallmark of the early factories is the utilization of...
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relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for … industrialization opportunities …
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likely for other economies that experienced historical industrialization and urbanization …
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We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that … only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to … transforming their sectoral structure. Most industrialization within counties occurred through the emergence of new "factory …
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Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...
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Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …
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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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