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opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of … interregional migration. Facing the challenges of fast urbanization and growing urban diseases, local governments still rely on the … lead to more social problems. Policy makers should reconsider the way to achieve efficient and harmonious urbanization by …
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pattern of urbanization. It first discusses how housing policies determine the supply and demand of housing in urban PRC and … interaction between the housing system and urbanization is unique, but it clearly indicates that an effective housing system that … can responsively provide adequate and affordable housing is crucial to the success of inclusive and equitable urbanization. …
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Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between benefits and costs determines the … level, speed, and pace of urbanization. This paper summarizes research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity … urbanization and growth in the Indian context by examining microeconomic evidence on how enterprises and consumers share production …
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The relationship between human capital development and urbanization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is explored …, and guaranteeing equal opportunity for all residents are necessary for a sustainable urbanization process in the PRC. In …
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This paper argues that urbanization reshapes individual's risk preference by exerting self-selection and assimilation … average. Overall, urbanization improves migrants' risk appetite, and mediated by this improvement, migrants are more likely to …
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This paper presents research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity and economic growth in both urban and … People's Republic of China (PRC), urbanization lags far behind industrialization. Institutional barriers against rural … for rural development, urbanization has propelled agricultural productivity, rural income, and consumption levels …
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This paper focuses on the demographic transition from rural to urban areas in Viet Nam. An empirical framework is developed to measure the relative impact of location characteristics versus individual characteristics in determining the destination choices of migrants. Assuming that locational...
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This paper examines the relationship between city size, migration, and urban income inequality using the 1% sample of the 2005 Census in the People's Republic of China (PRC). We calculate various measures of within-city income inequality for 252 PRC cities. It is found that city income...
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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …
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This paper analyzes consumption risk sharing among provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during 1980 - 2007. The analysis finds that 9.4% of shocks to gross provincial product are smoothed by the interprovincial fiscal transfer system. This system also cushions a relatively large...
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