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“Malthus living in a slum: urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth”
Castells-Quintana, David - Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada (IREA), … - 2015
infrastructure, essentially access to basic urban services. The main contribution of the paper is to therefore provide empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124424
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Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - European Regional Science Association - 2014
urban environment - in particular the quality of urban infrastructure - strongly determine the growth-enhancing benefits of … empirically). We analyse several measures of urban infrastructure and look at different world regions, taking a special focus on … to significant deficiencies in terms of urban infrastructure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075896
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“Malthus living in a slum: urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth”
Castells-Quintana, David - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2015
infrastructure, essentially access to basic urban services. The main contribution of the paper is to therefore provide empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194345
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Liberalisation, the stock market and the market for corporate control: a bridge too far for the Indian economy?
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
reviews the stockmarket reforms and comments on the available evidence on the effects of stockmarket expansion on corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112562
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Urbanization in Arunachal Pradesh: Trends and Patterns 1961-2000
Mandal, Ram Krishna - In: Journal of Global Economy 5 (2009) 4, pp. 320-340
An overview of the process of urbanization in the State of Arunachal Pradesh during the last two decades brings out the inadequacy of the existing institutional structure in managing urban centers in the “borderless” world of today. These institutions are noted to have least capacity to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011127672
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859538
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Sobre el efecto de las regalías en el bienestar: Una revisión del periodo 2001-2011
AGUILERA, Javier Andrés ROJAS - DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE PLANEACIÓN - 2014
Durante la primera década del siglo XXI, Colombia recibió cerca de $32 billones de pesos en regalías como consecuencia de una mayor dinámica en la explotación del sector minero-energético. La literatura que ha indagado por el efecto de estos recursos se ha concentrado en el crecimiento del...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889022
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Sub-national vulnerability and relative location: A case study of South Africa.
Rossouw, Stephanié; Webber, Don J. - Faculty of Business, Auckland University of Technology - 2012
Naudé et al. (2009) present an exploration into economic vulnerability from a subnational, district-level perspective. Their paper is an important and timely contribution because it recognises the heterogeneous nature of vulnerability across areas within a country. However, their analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902117
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Railroads and American Economic Growth: A "Market Access" Approach
Donaldson, Dave; Hornbeck, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper examines the historical impact of railroads on the American economy. Expansion of the railroad network may have affected all counties directly or indirectly - an econometric challenge that arises in many empirical settings. However, the total impact on each county is captured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950900
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Learning from Leipzig? Regional Development and Socio-cultural Transition
Bunzel, Dirk; Kelemen, Mihaela - In: Review of Economics & Finance 1 (2011) June, pp. 52-62
emphasis has been put upon developing a region?s ?hardware? (e.g. infrastructure), developmental policies and strategies need …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927794