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Improving governance is central to improving results in human development. It is clear that money is not enough …: improved outcomes from service delivery require better governance, including mechanisms for holding service providers … governance policies and performance, and the quality of service delivery in health and education. It develops a framework for …
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Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural-urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural modernization and rural poverty) and urban pull factors (industrialization and urban-biased policies). Using new...
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Economic Co-operation and Development countries lever capital markets by tapping foreign savings. Not only does excessive …
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This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic. It then argues that more productive jobs in cities do not exist in a void and underscores the...
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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 activities and secondary towns, and others undergoing rapid...
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This paper assesses the state of research and examines priorities for future work in the area of urbanization and growth. This is done by reviewing and summarizing the findings of five scoping papers covering the following topics: urban poverty, the political economy of urban poverty, urban real...
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high-income Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries lever capital markets by tapping foreign …
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from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by comparing and contrasting the spatial development of services with that in …
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India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …
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Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial … of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places … spatial productivity patterns across India. The paper shows that there is a gradation of spatial performance across places …
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