This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that pertain to a number of inter-related questions. Why do cities form in an economy, with so much of economic activity in countries geographically concentrated in cities? Second, how do different types of cities...

Pronounced disparities in income and economic opportunities exist between the coastal and the inland regions of China. This paper explores the proposition that regional disparities in China are related intimately to the structure of exports and foreign direct investment, which results in limited...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the structural change effects or labor reallocation effects on the regional disparity in productivity growth in India and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paper uses secondary data at the state level in India and provinces in the...

This paper presents a new mechanism explaining simultaneous convergence among industrialized countries and divergence between this group of countries and the rest of the world. In a world where capital goods are produced in a few centers and exported, I study the adoption of technologies...

In diesem Beitrag werden regionale Unterschiede in Bezug auf die erwerbsfähigen Leistungsberechtigten (eLb) untersucht. Die Analyse gliedert sich in zwei Teile. Der erste Teil widmet sich dem Anteil der eLb in verschiedenen Bevölkerungsgruppen (Betroffenheit), der zweite dem Anteil der...

Die Ausgaben für die Eingliederungshilfe für behinderte Menschen nach SGB XII variieren im regionalen Vergleich in Deutschland deutlich. In diesem Beitrag werden mit unterschiedlichen Verwaltungsstrukturen und der lokalen Wirtschaftskraft zwei mögliche Faktoren näher beleuchtet, die diese...

We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing...

Global and national economic shocks have affected neighborhoods in significant and disparate ways. The economic shock of deindustrialization in the 1970s and 1980s exacerbated concentrated poverty in segregated Black neighborhoods compared to White neighborhoods. The 2008 housing crisis also had...

This paper comes from research conducted for the I.D.E.E. project. Taking data from Italian regions, the dynamics of a multisector economy is studied by the use of the Framework Space, an analytical tool proposed by Boehm and Punzo (1998). Quantitative analysis of the dynamics is carried out by...

In this paper we analyze if an `urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history of industrialized nations during the 19th century. We analyze the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of 19 Sub-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult...