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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Structural Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries
Bah, El-hadj - 2009
Differences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources of the large variation of cross-country income. Kuznets included structural transformation as one of six stylized facts of economic development, nding that developed countries...
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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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