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The effects of rural land right security on labour structural transformation and urbanization : evidence from Thailand
Chankrajang, Thanyaporn - 2012
labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on … Although SPK4-01 titling alone is found to have no significant effect on urbanization, its impact depends significantly on … within-province transport infrastructure. More specifically, rural land right security increases urbanization more in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530934
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The political economy of structural transformation in African cities : insights from the Deals and Development framework
Sen, Kunal - 2024
An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053974
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Can cities or towns drive African development? : economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate … foreign trade) and benefits from urbanization (internal migration and agglomeration effects). Simulations suggest that urban … national growth. Given these trade-offs, we conclude that the urbanization's benefits argue against an "agro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545470
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Urbanization, climate change, and structural transformation in Accra, Ghana
Danquah, Michael; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2024
This study examines the effect of climate on citywide labour productivity in the Accra city region. We use data from Ghana's Integrated Business and Establishment Survey dataset, climate data at the sub-city level from Ghana Meteorological Agency, and satellite and reanalysis data, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525769
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Financial liberalization and its implications for private savings in sub-Saharan Africa
Asiedu, Elizabeth; Asiseh, Fafanyo; Mannah-Blankson, Theresa - 2022
This paper employs data from 103 developing countries between 1981 and 2012 to examine the determinants of private savings in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with a focus on the effect of financial liberalization on private savings. It also analyses why the savings rate for SSA countries is lower than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279902
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Building malls or metros? : South Africa's exports of tradable urban services to the rest of Africa
Turok, Ivan; Visagie, Justin - 2020
capabilities to support urbanization in Africa. However, South African companies have been relatively unsuccessful at exporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251892
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Addis deals: reckoning with the informal governance of urban structural transformation
Robi, Selam - 2024
African cities are increasingly seen as key to unlocking national structural transformation and inclusive growth, as they tend to host the majority of the non-productive and informal labour force; attract the lion's share of domestic investment in non-productive sectors; and host different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563046
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Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development : past trends and future challenges
Vos, Rob - 2018
growth and urbanization, which in turn induced deeper agrarian change and food system transformations. In South Asia, these … insecurity in this part of Asia remain. These challenges remain in a context of relatively advanced urbanization, strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894303
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Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco : subnational insights
Akim, Al-mouksit; Sahel, Wissal - 2023
This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal dataset covering employment and value added (VA)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290677
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Industrialization in developing countries : is it related to poverty reduction?
Erumban, Abdul Azeez; Vries, Gaaitzen J. de - 2021
This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and structural change-the reallocation of workers across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799097