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Urbanization and Development : Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?
Roberts, Mark - 2017
of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of … urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the size of its agricultural sector. However, countries in the Latin America …, Caribbean countries appear significantly less urbanized. However, analyses involving cross-country comparisons of urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246227
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Urban form and productivity : what is the shape of Latin American cities?
Duque, Juan C.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Patino, Jorge E.; … - 2019
This paper examines the linkages between urban form and city productivity, using alternative metrics for urban form and applying them to a comprehensive sample of Latin American cities. Although most of the literature has concentrated on the effects of population density (compact versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002715
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Free movement and affordable housing : public preferences for reform in Uzbekistan
Seitz, William - 2020
associated with declining optimism and lower support for the wider government national development program, beyond urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228192
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Religion and sanitation practices
Adukia, Anjali; Alsan, Marcella; Goldhaber-Fiebert, … - 2020
Infant mortality among Hindus is higher than among Muslims in India, and religious differences in sanitation practices have been cited as a contributing factor. To explore whether religion itself is associated with differences in sanitation practices, this study compares sanitation practices of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228641
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Identifying urban areas by combining data from the ground and from outer space : an application to India
Galdo, Virgilio; Li, Yue; Rama, Martín - 2018
This paper develops a tractable method to identify urban areas and applies it to India, where urbanization is messy …. And the speed of urbanization is only marginally higher than official statistics suggest. But a considerable number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002176
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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction - A Migrant's Perspective
Ingelaere, Bert - 2017
This paper develops the concept of "action space" as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. It shows how this space expands and contracts over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245722
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Spatial Development and Agglomeration Economies in Services-Lessons from India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2016
services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245816
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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 … prosperity for developing countries? / Gilles Duranton -- Urbanization, agglomeration, and economic development / John M. Quigley …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644079
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Democratic Republic of Congo Urbanization Review : Productive and Inclusive Cities for an Emerging Democratic Republic of Congo
2009
need to make cities more productive by addressing the lack of concentrated economic activity. The Urbanization Review of … (East, South, Central, West and Congo Basin) that present specific challenges and opportunities. The Urbanization Review …
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