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The paper aims to build a bridge between the New Economic Geography and Malthusian theory. Both theories seek to explain the phenomenon of agglomeration processes: Malthusian theory through first nature effects; the New Economic Geography through second nature effects. Using a methodology based...
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The main item of agreement between the 'new' and 'old' economic geography is the role of increasing returns in regional economic development. This provides a focal point for the model of this paper, which aims to highlight the existence of a 'third way' somewhere between the analysis provided by...
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This paper seeks to critically examine recent debates on global governance, albeit from a human development perspective. In doing so it identifies and describes two important principles for building institutions for the advancing of human development: what may be termed the imperative of...
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inequality, the figure decline dramatically starting from the year 2000. In this setting, Bolivia has been one of the poorest … research applies a method of inequality decomposition– as developed by (Fields, 2003)-, this technique consists on regressing … other variables) has contributed on the reduction of inequality in Bolivia. Moreover, the sources of inequality are mainly …
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. This paper stresses the importance of adopting a multi-angle approach to fully understand income inequality in China. We …Economic reforms have brought about spectacular growth and vast improvements of people’s living standards in China … since 1978. In the meantime, unbalanced regional growth and income inequality have become two important concerns of future …
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, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …In this Paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … institutions across countries are difficult to control for, and the inequality data across countries may not be compatible. An in …
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rise in inequality of income that occured in Chine over those seven years. The Gini coefficient of household income per … economic devide betweeen rural and urban China, the rural and urban samples are analysed separately. The two main explanations … for the rise in inequality are economic growth and economic transition. …
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manufacturing sector toward high value-added products. However, regional inequality in China has increased considerably behind the …China has achieved unprecedented success in economic growth since the initiation of economic reforms. The high growth … transformation and industrial upgrading on regional inequality. This paper contributes to the literature by employing a database …
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We develop a urban economic model in which agents locate in cities of different size so as to maximize the net output of the whole system of cities in a country. From this model two new city size distributions are exactly derived. We call these functions “threshold double Pareto Generalized...
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This study examines intra-regional disparity and municipal merger in Fukuoka Prefecture. Fukuoka Prefecture (Fukuoka-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyushu Island. It faces the sea on three sides, bordering on Saga, Oita, and Kumamoto prefectures and facing Yamaguchi Prefecture across...
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