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Farther on Down the Road : Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Storeygard, Adam - 2013
Transport costs are widely considered an important barrier to local economic activity but their impact in developing countries is not well-studied. This paper investigates the role of inter-city transport costs in determining the income of Sub-Saharan African cities, using two new data sources....
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Leveraging Land to Enable Urban Transformation : Lessons from Global Experience
Lozano-Gracia, Nancy; Young, Cheryl; Lall, Somik V. - 2013
Around the world, in both developed and developing countries, policy makers use a variety of tools to manage and accommodate urban growth and redevelopment. Government officials have three main concerns in terms of land policy: (i) accommodating urban expansion, (ii) providing infrastructure,...
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Dynamic Cities and Creative Clusters
Wu, Weiping - 2012
The author focuses on how urban policies and the clustering of creative industries has influenced urban outcomes. The set of creative industries include those with output protectable under some form of intellectual property law. More specifically, this sub-sector encompasses software,...
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Is Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
Henderson, J. Vernon; Roberts, Mark; Storeygard, Adam - 2013
In the past dozen years, a literature has developed arguing that urbanization has unfolded differently in post … urbanization experience overall matches global patterns. There are differences, however, at the sector level. Agricultural trade … effects that improve farm prices deter African urbanization, while they promote urbanization elsewhere. Potential reasons …
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Improving Indoor Air Quality for Poor Families : A Controlled Experiment in Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita; Huq, Mainul; Khaliquzzaman, M. - 2012
The World Health Organization's 2004 Global and Regional Burden of Disease Report estimates that acute respiratory infections from indoor air pollution (pollution from burning wood, animal dung, and other bio-fuels) kill a million children annually in developing countries, inflicting a...
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Indoor Air Quality for Poor Families : New Evidence from Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita; Huq, Mainul; Khaliquzzaman, M. - 2013
Indoor air pollution (IAP) from cooking and heating is estimated to kill a million children annually in developing countries. To promote a better understanding of IAP, the authors investigate the determinants of IAP in Bangladesh using the latest air monitoring technology and a national...
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Who Suffers from Indoor Air Pollution? Evidence from Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita; Huq, Mainul; Khaliquzzaman, M. - 2013
In this paper the authors investigate individuals' exposure to indoor air pollution. Using new survey data from Bangladesh, they analyze exposure at two levels-differences within households attributable to family roles, and differences across households attributable to income and education....
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The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2013
The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for...
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Sustaining Urban Growth through Innovative Capacity : Beijing and Shanghai in Comparison
Jici, Wang; Xin, Tong - 2012
The authors examine the diverse prospects of innovative sectors in Beijing and Shanghai using available indicators and data collected for this study through surveys. Beijing is the first choice for companies locating in China, but foreign employees prefer Shanghai for living convenience and...
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Determinants of City Growth in Brazil
da Mata, Daniel; Deichmann, Uwe; Henderson, J. Vernon - 2012
The authors examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. They consider a model of a city that combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, the authors construct a dataset of 123 Brazilian...
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