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Grundlagen der Umwelttheorien : eine kritische Beurteilung
Köhler, Ayyub Axel - 1980
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004583384
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Health Financing in Vanuatu : Challenges and Options
Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010932944
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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945390
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Economic Growth and Expansion of China’s Urban Land Area: Evidence from Administrative Data and Night Lights, 1993–2012
Gibson, John; Li, Chao; Boe-Gibson, Geua - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 11, pp. 7850-7865
The relationship between economic growth, expansion of urban land area and the broader issue of cultivated land conversion in China has been closely examined for the late 1980s and 1990s. Much less is known about recent urban expansion and if the effects of economic growth on this expansion have...
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The impact of economic growth, industrial structure and urbanization on carbon emission intensity in China
Zhang, Yue-Jun; Liu, Zhao; Zhang, Huan; Tan, Tai-De - In: Natural Hazards 73 (2014) 2, pp. 579-595
advance the socioeconomic reforms in recent years. And urbanization is supposed to be one of the most important socioeconomic … urbanization on carbon emission intensity. The results indicate that, first, there is long-term cointegrating relationship between … significant roles in curbing carbon emission intensity, while the promotion of population urbanization (i.e., the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949731
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Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level
Motamed, Mesbah; Florax, Raymond; Masters, William - In: Journal of Economic Growth 19 (2014) 3, pp. 339-368
urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide … thresholds of urbanization. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity across countries through fixed effects and using a variety … of spatial econometric techniques, we find a robust association between earlier urbanization and agro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959175
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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930231
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The Relationship between Urbanization, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption in China: An Econometric Perspective Analysis
Zhao, Yabo; Wang, Shaojian - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 5, pp. 5609-5627
As the largest developing country in the world, with rapid economic growth, China has witnessed fast-paced urbanization … development over the past three decades. In fact, urbanization has been shown to promote economic growth and improve the … understanding of the relationship between urbanization, economic growth and energy consumption is important for China’s future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274560
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Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level
Motamed, Mesbah J.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Masters, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide … thresholds of urbanization. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity across countries through fixed effects and using a variety … of spatial econometric techniques, we find a robust association between earlier urbanization and agro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255889
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Cointegration Analysis on the Relation between Urbanization and Economic Growth in China
Liu, Ai-ying; Yao, Li-fen; Li, Qing-chen - In: Asian Agricultural Research 03 (2011) 03
empirical research on the relation between urbanization and GDP in China, and also implements a comparative analysis to the … relation between three industries and degree of urbanization, the related coeffecient is 0.97, 0.95, 0.97, 0.97. And the result … shows a long-term balance between these two factors, and the promoting effect to tertiary industry by urbanization is more …
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