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Evidence on the political economy of the urbanization process

Davis, James C.; Henderson, J. Vernon - In: Journal of urban economics 53 (2003) 1, pp. 98-125

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Chapter 22. The Geography of Development Within Countries

Desmet, Klaus; Henderson, J. Vernon - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 1457-1517). 2015

This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural–urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural–urban distinction, we then focus on the continuum of locations in an...

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Urbanization and the geography of development

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2014

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Chapter 24. Urbanization and Growth

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2005

This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that pertain to a number of inter … level of individual cities. In the early stages of growth, economic development is characterized by urbanization – a spatial … aspects of the transformation? In any static, growth, or development–urbanization context, how do governance, institutions …

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Chapter 65. Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Japan and China

Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya; Henderson, J. Vernon; … - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2911-2977). 2004

In this chapter we look at the spatial distribution of economic activities in China and Japan. Japan has excellent data and relatively uniform institutions since World War II, which allow us to track its spatial evolution and detail its key features today. For Japan we show how structural shifts...

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