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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)
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. …
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Does Foreign Direct Investment Improve Economic Development in North African Countries?
Soumaré, Issouf - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare improvement in North African countries. Using net … per capita FDI inflows and the UNDP's HDI as the principal variables, our analyses confirm the positive and strongly … significant relationship between net FDI inflows and welfare improvement in North Africa, although we do find significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034646
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Economic geography and African development
Venables, Anthony - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 89 (2010) 3, pp. 469-483
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Concentration of resources and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25
In this letter I summarise the main results and contributions from my Ph.D. thesis on concentration of resources and economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in modern economic development, namely increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304117
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Growth and Inclusion Trajectories of Colombian Functional Territories
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2018
We describe the patterns of economic growth and social progress in Colombian "functional territories". Unlike political/administrative divisions that emerge at least partly for historical reasons unrelated to economic interactions, functional territories reflect the patterns of spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907916
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The Myth of 'African Growth Tragedy' : Past, Present and Future
Zhang, Tianze - 2018
insufficient infrastructure. In this essay, I will discuss the possible root of the “trajectory growth” in African countries from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910710
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Cities and Green Growth : A Conceptual Framework
Hammer, Stephen; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis; … - 2011
This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining the economic and environmental conditions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446283
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Carbon emissions, income inequality and environmental degradation : the case of Mediterranean countries
Belaïd, Fateh; Boubaker, Sabri; Kafrouni, Rajwane - In: European journal of comparative economics 17 (2020) 1, pp. 73-102
This study examines the main driving forces affecting short- and long-term CO2 emissions pattern due to changes in growth and income inequality for 11 Mediterranean economies over the period 1990-2012. It proposes an autoregressive dynamic distributive lag dynamic panel specification to (i) test...
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Economic Geography of Human Development : Stratified Growth in Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru
Mayer-Foulkes, David - 2015
This article begins by constructing a model of stratified and divergent economic growth integrating economic geography, human development and endogenous technological change. Even in the presence of perfect capital, goods, and labor markets, economic geography and local governance can lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213653
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Manufacturing Growth and Local Multipliers in China
Wang, Ting; Chanda, Areendam - 2017
We investigate the impact of manufacturing employment growth on the non-tradable sector for prefecture-level cities in China. Using the 2000 and 2010 Censuses of Population, we apply the shift-share approach to isolate the exogenous change of employment growth in manufacturing. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014131361