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Urban youth bulges and social disorder : an empirical study of Asian and Sub-Saharan African cities
Urdal, Henrik; Hoelscher, Kristian - 2009
By 2050, two-thirds of the world s population will live in cities, and the greatest growth in urban populations will take place in the least developed countries. This presents many governments with considerable challenges related to urban governance and the provision of services and...
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Urbanization and property rights
Cai, Yongyang; Selod, Harris; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2015
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Urbanization and poverty reduction : the role of rural diversification and secondary towns
Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Todō, Yasuyuki - 2013
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Housing consumption and urbanization
Lozano-Gracia, Nancy; Young, Cheryl - 2014
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Understanding India's urban frontier : what is behind the emergence of census towns in India?
Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Partha; Zérah, Marie-Hélène; … - 2016
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Breaking into tradables : urban form and urban function in a developing city
Venables, Anthony - 2017
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Religion and sanitation practices
Adukia, Anjali; Alsan, Marcella; Goldhaber-Fiebert, … - 2020
Infant mortality among Hindus is higher than among Muslims in India, and religious differences in sanitation practices have been cited as a contributing factor. To explore whether religion itself is associated with differences in sanitation practices, this study compares sanitation practices of...
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Does pollution hinder urban competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Soppelsa, Maria E. - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those cities that specialize in heavy industrial activity...
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Cities of workers, children, or seniors? : age structure and economic growth in a global cross-section of cities
Jedwab, Remi; Pereira, Daniel; Roberts, Mark - 2019
A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...
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Migration and urbanization in post-apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2019
Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization …, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no … populations. Overall, the evidence suggests that exogenous migration shocks can foster urbanization in the medium run …
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