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An exploratory network analysis of mobile broadband provider's infrastructure relationships in Tamil Nadu, India
Sigloch, Sebastian; Giovannetti, Emanuele; Fennell, Shailaja - 2016
providers in the area included between the cities of Kancheepuram and Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India, from an original end … generated and reflect mobility, as they were sourced from smartphones along the route between Chennai and Kancheepuram, rather …
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CDM Potential for Rural Transition in China Case Study: Options in Yinzhou District, Zhejiang Province
Zhao, Xingshu; Michaelowa, Axel - 2004
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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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technologicalprogress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel’s...
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Cities, hinterlands and agglomeration shadows: spatial developments in Finland over 1880-2004
Tervo, Hannu - 2010
in locational patterns increased in Finland during the processes of industrialization and urbanization. Furthermore, in …
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Banking and Industrialization
Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 2015
We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
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Local demand, urbanization and Amazonian Metropolitan Regions impacts on deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon
Castelani, Sergio; Guilhoto, Joaquim; Igliori, Danilo - 2013
. As the Brazilian Amazon contains 5 big Metropolitan Regions, and in order to take into account this referred urbanization … urbanization process taking place within Brazilian Amazon play an important role in terms of the deforestation it might cause. …
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Winning the Oil Lottery: The Impact of Natural Resource Extraction on Growth
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mata, Daniel Da; Toscani, Frederik - 2014
sectors of the economy. Services GDP per capita is estimated to increase by roughly 20% and urbanization by over 4% points. We …
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Approaching integrated urban-rural development in China: The changing institutional roles
Li, Yuheng; Hu, Zhichao; Liu, Yansui - 2014
Ever since the twenty-first century, the Chinese government has been undertaking a series of rural-favored policies and measures to promote comprehensive development in rural China. The fundamental purpose is to accomplish integrated urban-rural development (IURD) given the ever enlarging...
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Megacities and Countries: Urbanization and Real Convergence
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014
A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9 million...
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Agglomeration externalities and urbanization in Ecuador
Rosero, Grace Carolina Guevara; Riou, Stephane; … - 2015
spatial lags. Last, we investigate the specific role of urbanization. The intuition is that a critical level of urbanization … great heterogeneity of Ecuadorian cantons in terms of urbanization. Our empirical work is mainly based on the Economic …-monotonous effect of urbanization on the various externalities that impact on the local productivity. Precisely, the positive …
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