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Given that India’s urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account for only 31% of the country’s population, they have been rightly called the engines of India’s growth. In this paper, I answer the following questions: What are the...
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This paper summarizes and expands the state-of-the-art understanding of the urbanization, development, environment, and … inequality nexus. Economic growth/development, urbanization, and energy/electricity consumption are all highly correlated. While … urbanization may be more evidence of economic progress than a catalyst for economic growth, there is some evidence that poor …
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In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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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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suggests that the PRC government should adjust its policies on future urbanization for fewer restrictions on the further growth …
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Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have … participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interlinks between population urbanization and trade … explaining the cereals trade-population urbanization nexus, showing how cereals supply constrains population urbanization and how …
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This paper aims to study the impacts of financial development, urbanization, and globalization on income inequality in … suggest that financial development, urbanization, and globalization exert a positive impact on income. However, the … contributions of urbanization, foreign investment, physical capital, and human capital to regional inequality are positive. Moreover …
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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 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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East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since...
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