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Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in Brazil
Leivas, Pedro H.; Santos, Anderson M. A. dos - 2016
In this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of group-based inequalities in Brazil in the past 30 years. Using data from the last four demographic censuses (1980, 1991, 2000, and 2010), we estimate numerous measures to analyse inequalities between different 'ethnic' groups. Our results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568100
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Industrial development and growth in Nigeria : lessons and challenges
Chete, Louis N.; Adeoti, J. O.; Adeyinka, F. M.; … - 2014
The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of government revenue between 2011 and 2012. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233106
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Violent urbanization and homogenization of space and place : reconstructing the story of sectarian violence in Beirut
Yassin, Nasser - 2010
This paper aims at understanding the dynamics of sectarian violence in the city of Beirut, by looking at the early phase of violence in the Lebanese civil war (1975-90), and the process of dividing Beirut into various sectarian enclaves controlled by the warring militias. The paper aims to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660820
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The gendered nature of asset accumulation in urban contexts : longitudinal results from Guayaquil, Ecuador
Moser, Caroline O. N.; Felton, Andrew - 2010
This paper examines the gendered nature of asset accumulation between 1978 and 2004 in Indio Guayas, a low-income community on the periphery of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. In so doing, it emphasizes both the importance of combining quantitative and qualitative intra-household data, as well...
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Agglomeration index : towards a new measure of urban concentration
Uchida, Hirotsugu; Nelson, Andrew - 2010
) and the world. This paper proposes an alternative to the UN measure of urban concentration that we call an agglomeration … index. -- agglomeration index ; urbanization ; accessibility map ; cost surface …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661300
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Rural roads and urban agglomeration economies : benefits for town and country?
Bell, Clive - 2018
Do urban agglomeration economies enhance the social profitability of rural roads? When all goods are traded at … families. In a closed, two-good economy with mobile labour, the effects of agglomeration economies depend on the … presence of empirically plausible elasticities of agglomeration economies when preferences are Cobb-Douglas and urban …
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Special economic zones in Southern Africa : white elephants or latent drivers of growth and employment? : the case of Zambia and South Africa
Phiri, Mwanda; Manchishi, Shimukunku - 2020
industries for greater agglomeration economies, thus rendering them more of white elephants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320977
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Agglomeration and productivity in South Africa : evidence from firm-level data
Amusa, Hammed Adedeji; Wabiri, Njeri; Fadiran, David … - 2019
from total factor productivity originating from agglomeration economies and the spatial diffusion of productivity shocks …
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Industrial agglomeration in Myanmar
Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda; Zille, Helge - 2019
and model specifications, as well as to controlling for the natural level of industrial agglomeration in a particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978505
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Evolving city systems
Overman, Henry G.; Venables, Anthony - 2010
implications are outlined. -- urbanization ; globalization ; agglomeration ; city systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661316