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The structural anatomy and institutional architecture of inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Thorbecke, Erik - 2014

growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears … process. Two alternatives development strategies are described: pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction. The finding … that high initial poverty incidence acts as a deterrent to subsequent growth is confronted with micro evidence from rural …

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Understanding Mozambique's growth experience through an employment lens

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015

. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household …

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Current structure and future challenges of the agricultural sector

Ravago, Majah-Leah V.; Balisacan, Arsenio M. - 2015

agriculture a key pillar in the country's pursuit of inclusive growth, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. …

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The determinants of urban concentration

Junius, Karsten - 1997

Urban concentration differs across countries. One determinant of these differences is economic development, which first increases and subsequently decreases urban concentration. I condition the degree of urban concentration on the potential of countries to develop a balanced urban system. These...

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Openness and urban concentration in Europe, 1870-1990

Nitsch, Volker - 2001

This paper provides a new attempt to examine the relationship between an economy's exposure to foreign trade and its degree of urban concentration. In contrast to previous work, which is often based on rich cross-country data sets, the analysis is focused exclusively on European countries,...

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Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth

Castells-Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2014

Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...

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Population, light, and the size distribution of cities

Düben, Christian; Krause, Melanie - In: Journal of Regional Science 61 (2021) 1, pp. 189-211

We provide new insights on the city size distribution of countries around the world. Using more than 10,000 cities delineated via geospatial data and a globally consistent city identification scheme, we investigate distributional shapes in all countries. In terms of population, we find that...

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Urbanization, urban concentration and economic growth in developing countries

Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric - 2003

We investigate how urban concentration and urbanization affect economic growth in developing countries. Using semi-parametric estimation techniques on a cross-country panel of 39 countries for the years 1960-1990 we discover a U-shaped relationship for urban concentration. This suggests the...

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Driving over the hill: Car intensity during structural transformation

Mac Domhnaill, Ciaráan - 2024

This paper examines the number of licensed private cars in the economy per unit of GDP, or car intensity, as an intrinsic component of car use that may be underlying the observed peak car phenomenon. Using data on 88 countries from 1950 to 2010, I demonstrate that car intensity evolves in a...

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Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages and Diverse Patterns of Structural Transformation

Paul, Saumik; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2022

Intersectoral linkages can act as shock propagation channels and shape the pattern of structural transformation. To our knowledge, no research has examined how subnational differences in intersectoral linkages impact such spillover effects. We hypothesize that regional differences in local...

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