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Promoting the Rural Farm and Nonfarm Businesses : Evidence from the Yemen Rural Investment Climate

Sawada, Naotaka - 2017

This study examines the major constraints of rural business entry and performance in Yemen. The Yemen rural investment climate survey made it possible to analyze rural investment climate constraints for rural businesses. The survey was used to investigate both farm and nonfarm rural enterprises....

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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Village-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

Deininger, Klaus W. - 2017

As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate labor market restrictions. This study uses a discontinuity design with spatial...

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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

Deininger, Klaus W. - 2017

implementation. Local labor supply increased, with the young shifting toward agriculture and the old toward off-farm employment …

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A Dynamic Spatial Model of Rural-Urban Transformation with Public Goods

Biller, Dan - 2017

This paper develops a dynamic model that explains the pattern of population and production allocation in an economy with an urban location and a rural one. Agglomeration economies make urban dwellers benefit from a larger population living in the city and urban firms become more productive when...

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Poverty Reduction During the Rural-Urban Transformation : The Role of the Missing Middle

Christiaensen, Luc J. - 2017

As countries develop, they restructure away from agriculture and urbanize. But structural transformation and … urbanization patterns differ substantially, with some countries fostering migration out of agriculture into rural off farm … developing countries spanning 1980-2004, the analysis in this paper finds that migration out of agriculture into the missing …

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Urbanization and Poverty Reduction -- the Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns

Christiaensen, Luc J. - 2017

/4-2010 shows that about one in two individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning from agriculture into the …

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Closing Rural-Urban MDG Gaps in Low-Income Countries : A General Equilibrium Perspective

Löfgren, Hans - 2017

This paper addresses policies aimed at closing the rural-urban gap for one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the under-five mortality rate (U5MR). The paper relies on the Maquette for MDG Simulations (MAMS), a computable general equilibrium model, applied to the database of an...

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Converting Land into Affordable Housing Floor Space

Bertaud, Alain - 2017

Cities emerge from the spatial concentration of people and economic activities. But spatial concentration is not enough; the economic viability of cities depends on people, ideas, and goods to move rapidly across the urban area. This constant movement within dense cities creates wealth but also...

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Investing in School Readiness : An Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness of Early Childhood Education Pathways in Rural Indonesia

Nakajima, Nozomi; Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Brinkman, … - 2017

This paper presents evidence on the cost-effectiveness of early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia. It documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed enrollment histories, it unpacks whether and how early...

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Investing in School Readiness : An Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness of Early Childhood Education Pathways in Rural Indonesia

Nakajima, Nozomi; Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Brinkman, … - 2018

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