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Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries health care qualifies as a necessity in Pakistan. Urbanization and … from Pakistan on economic, demographic, social, and political variables. The data spans a period from 1972- 2006 and was ….32 respectively, implying that it is costly to provide health care to residents of remote rural areas of Pakistan. …
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become significant importers. Thailand, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam and the Philippines all see LNG as needed to supplement …, these smaller countries offer a diversity of analytical interest. Malaysia and Indonesia are LNG exporters, now looking to …
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This paper aims to examine the potential of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to address energy- related issues during the rural transition process in China, using a case study of quickly urbanizing and industrializing Yinzhou district in coastal Zhejiang province. Yinzhou's per capita GDP...
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Cities are at the heart of Europe. As four of every five European citizens live in urban areas, their quality of life and the quality of their environment depends upon how cities look and how they function. Cities are also places where business is done, investments are made and jobs are created....
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In this paper, we argue that the complexion of housing finance systems in OECD countries, both now and historically, has a significant bearing on a number of core housing-related indicators, including housing form, tenure composition, and urban development. Existing literature in the fields of...
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This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
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This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263228
This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the … different for upper, middle, and low- income countries, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact on emissions for low …
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Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear …
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Population processes and outcomes (in this case, urbanization) influences and changes the development of an area and … network and the gold rush in the early 80s have contributed to the development of the City. Rapid urbanization soon ensued …
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