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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...
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Chapter 22. The Geography of Development Within Countries
Desmet, Klaus; Henderson, J. Vernon - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 1457-1517). 2015
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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Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level
Motamed, Mesbah J.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Masters, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
income today. "Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level" has been …
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Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level
Motamed, Mesbah J.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Masters, … - 2014
This paper addresses the timing of a location's historical transition from rural to urban activity. We test whether urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide data that divide the earth's surface at half-degree...
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Economic growth, convergence, and agricultural economics
Martin, Will - 2019
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Agriculture for development : analytics and action
De Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - In: Annual review of resource economics 14 (2022), pp. 1-16
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Industrial policy for agriculture in the global economy
Johnson, Stanley R. (contributor);  … - 1993 - 1. ed
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Playing to strength : growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid; Kumar, Praveen - 2018
, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion's share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …
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Playing to Strength : Growth Strategy for Small Agrarian Economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid - 2018
, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion?s share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912289
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Chapter 22 The economics of agriculture in developing countries: The role of the environment
López, Ramón - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part A, …, (pp. 1213-1247). 2002
explicitly considering the dynamics of the natural resource base (e.g., soil quality, water, etc.) of agriculture as well as the …
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