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infrastructure and effective policy reforms. This study investigates that, how urbanization impacts economic growth and development … to find the relationship of human capital and urbanization and their convergence towards economic growth through capacity … development. Secondly, it examines the role of urbanization in the formation of human capital and to find the channels through …
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Phoenix and neighboring municipalities, like many in the South and West, pursued a growth strategy based on annexation in the decades after World War II. This paper explores the link between annexation and competition for tax revenues. After discussing arguments for annexation, it traces the...
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urbanization are unsustainably high. Deep existing deficits in basic urban services such as housing, transit, water, sanitation and …
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I use German administrative data for 2001-2010 to analyse the impact of urbanization and firm characteristics on wage …
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In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the … People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous … Urbanization Prospects, we use an instrumental variables approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants. We …
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This paper examines the political economy of Russian city growth. For the 1980s, we model the growth of 168 Russian cities located in 71 Russian provinces (oblast level). We examine the role of both general socio-economic characteristics and specific state controls. Our goal is to understand the...
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