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Rural and urban development in sustainable context is a complex process that requires an improvement of the existing situation and a removing of the dysfunctions. Over time, the rural area was not addressed as much as urban area, rural analysis is often fragmentary explained and incomplete...
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specialization in China, 1987 - 2007. It constructs a simple coefficient incorporating the effect of regional industrial scale, based … on location quotients, and then measures the regional specialization of China using official statistical data. The … results indicate a remarkable increase in China’s overall regional specialization during this time, as well as obvious …
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This paper presents a few stylized facts on the patterns of China's industrialization by computing a set of multi … and 2004. Our results show that China's rapid industrialization is characterized by the following patterns: industries … non-clustered ones. Together these patterns suggest that China's industrialization process is largely cluster …
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The paper examines trends and drivers for regional specialization of China’s agricultural produc-tion for 2003-2011. We … apply the Regional Specialization Index to a data set of commodities that covers 70 percent of China’s crop and livestock … China’s agro-ecological characteristics. Our findings show that inequality of specialization among the Chinese regions has …
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causes of migration from the agricultural sector, and analyses urbanization consequences and the need for state intervention …
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urbanization. Increasing number of inhabitants is concentrated in the cities, suburbs to which they were spread and in industrial …
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urbanization in this region. Despite development, traditional agriculture still predominates. Changes in land use were examined … increased it. Other measures of urbanization, such as proximity to a city or inter-state highway had no statistically … significant effect on farm practices. Keywords: Agricultural adaptation, rural development, off-farm income, urbanization, land …
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Urbanization means the growth of the number and size of the towns and the spreading of quality of life in towns (Enyedi …, 1996). Naturally the growth and development is different in several parts of the world. On the other hand the urbanization … urbanization (economic development, rural development, infrastructural development etc.). Primary target is to demonstrate the …
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The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms by which agricultural development changes the economic welfare of the various groups of population in...
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