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Mexico Urbanization Review : Managing Spatial Growth for Productive and Livable Cities in Mexico
Kim, Yoonhee - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
Despite impressive economic growth and increasing prosperity, cities in Mexico do not seem to have fully captured the … of cities. The lack of a coordinated approach to urban development has hindered the ability of cities in Mexico to boost … services, infrastructure, and access to employment. Mexico Urbanization Review: Managing Spatial Growth for Productive and …
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David - 2015
in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …
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Kenya Economic Update, April 2019, No. 19 : Unbundling the Slack in Private Sector Investment - Transforming Agriculture Sector Productivity and Linkages to Poverty Reduction
World Bank Group - 2019
The Kenyan economy rebounded in 2018 and economic activity in the first quarter of 2019 was healthy, although emerging drought conditions could curtail GDP growth for the remainder of the year. The economy expanded by 6.0 percent in the first three quarters of 2018 compared to 4.7 percent during...
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Institutional fragmentation and metropolitan coordination in Latin American cities : what consequences for productivity and growth?
Duque, Juan C.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Patino, Jorge E.; … - 2019
This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of institutional fragmentation and metropolitan coordination on urban productivity in Latin American cities. The use of night-time lights satellite imagery and high-resolution population data allow the use of a broader definition of...
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of urban growth in Latin American cities : an analysis using nighttime lights imagery
Duque, Juan C.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Patino, Jorge E.; … - 2019
The impact of urban form on economic performance and quality of life has been extensively recognized. The studies on urban form have focused in developed countries; only a few cities in developing countries have been studied. This paper utilizes nighttime lights imagery and information on street...
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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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Agglomeration, urbanization and employment growth in Ghana : evidence from an industry-district panel
Kerr, Andrew; McDougall, Bruce - 2019
In this paper the impact of various agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing is investigated, using data from two firm censuses, as well as population census and trade data. The study is the first to use nationally representative firm data that covers the formal and...
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Urbanization and growth
Annez, Patricia Clarke (contributor);  … - 2009
Urbanization and growth : setting the context / Patricia Clarke Annez and Robert M. Buckley -- Rethinking economic growth in a globalizing world : an economic geography lens / Anthony J. Venables -- Are cities engines of growth and prosperity for developing countries? / Gilles Duranton --...
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Which Way to Livable and Productive Cities? : A Road Map for Sub-Saharan Africa
Hommann, Kirsten - 2019
For African cities to grow economically as they have grown in size, they must create productive environments to attract investments, increase economic efficiency, and create livable environments that prevent urban costs from rising with increased population densification. What are the central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644193
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Toward great Dhaka : a new urban development paradigm eastward
Bird, Julia; Li, Yue; Rahman, Hossain Zillur; Rama, Martin - 2018
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