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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, … - In: Journal of economic growth 19 (2014) 3, pp. 339-368
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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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The global spatial distribution of economic activity : nature, history and the role of trade
Henderson, J. Vernon; Squires, Tim; Storeygard, Adam; … - 2016
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Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization : Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level
Motamed, Mesbah - 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 …
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Economic geography and African development
Venables, Anthony - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 89 (2010) 3, pp. 469-483
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Scenari del XXI secolo : temi di geografica economica
Emanuel, Cesare (contributor);  … - 1999
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Migration and urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher A.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2016
Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. Given gravity, a town nearer to the homelands can be expected to receive a larger inflow of people...
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Achieving strong and balanced regional development in India
Joumard, Isabelle; Morgavi, Hermes; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017
sustainable irrigation technologies. As working population moves out of agriculture, urbanisation will gather pace. However …
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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571204
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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2021
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315896