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This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural–urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural–urban distinction, we then focus on the continuum of locations in an...
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Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have … participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interlinks between population urbanization and trade … explaining the cereals trade-population urbanization nexus, showing how cereals supply constrains population urbanization and how …
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This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions within the STIRPAT framework over the period 1971 to … results robustly show an inverted N-shaped relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions in the long-term associated … urbanization tend to reduce CO2 emissions in the long-term. The estimated turning point for the urbanization ratio after which CO2 …
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This paper explores how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of … resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike. Sampling 419 resilience … findings. First is the absence of a coherent resilience paradigm (with shared definitions, problems, and methods) in …
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This short article discusses urban redevelopment, and its relation to economic productivity and various concepts of well being. It notes that solutions adopted in one era are apt to be the problems of the next. The article then introduces the four articles comprising the George Mason Law Review...
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Urban economists have long sought to explain the relationship between urbanization levels and output. In this paper we … revisit this question and test the long run stability of a production function with urbanization using non-stationary panel … data techniques. Our results show that a long run relationship between urbanization output per worker and capital per …
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We investigate how urban concentration and urbanization affect economic growth in developing countries. Using semi … between urbanization and economic growth …
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income, urbanization and industrialization has on energy intensity for a panel of 76 developing countries. In the long-run, a … range 0.07 to 0.12. The impact of urbanization on energy intensity is mixed. In specifications where the estimated … coefficient on urbanization is statistically significant, it is slightly larger than unity. The implications of these results for …
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How do development projects influence the geographic distribution of economic activity within low-income and middle-income countries? Existing research focuses on the effects of Western development projects on inter-personal inequality and inequality across different subnational regions....
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The paper is concerned with the formation of polycentric cities. The model we introduce includes two types of developers and planning authorities. Developers’ characteristics, such as scale of operations, availability of own-capital and time preferences lead to various decisions concerning the...
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