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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William; Goswami, Arti Grover - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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Land Conversion Across Cities in China

Fu, Shihe - 2020

The Chinese government has been using annual quotas to control the amount of farm-land that can be converted for urban uses in cities. Using a sample of more than 1.5 million land-lease transactions during 2007-2016, we document facts on land conversion for urban development in China. We present...

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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William - 2012

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On the spatial scale of industrial agglomerations

Mori, Tomoya; Smith, Tony E. - 2015

Standard approaches to studying industrial agglomeration have been in terms of scalar measures of agglomeration within … each industry. But such measures often fail to distinguish spatial scales of agglomeration. In a previous paper, Mori and … agglomeration based on an explicit method for detecting spatial clusters. The first, designated as the global extent of industrial …

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Transport Subsidies, System Choice, and Urban Sprawl

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2021

This paper analyzes the effect of transport subsidies on the spatial expansion of cities, asking whether subsidies are a source of undesirable urban sprawl. While the cost-reducing effect of transport subsidies is offset by a higher general tax burden (which reduces the demand for space), the...

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Transitioning from a Smart City to a Cognitive City - The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies

Kansal, Sunil - 2023

The objective of this article is to explore the emergence of cognitive cities as the next step in urban development and to provide insights to city planners and administrators on how to create a connected and efficient physical environment that serves its citizens. By examining the key features...

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Agricultural surplus, division of labour and the emergence of cities, a spatial general equilibrium model

Spielvogel, Gilles - DIAL - 2003

(english) In this paper, we expose the economic conditions of cities emergence in a spatial general equilibrium framework. The presence of increasing returns based on the division of labour, transport costs and the possible existence of an agricultural surplus are enough to generate different...

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Agricultural surplus, division of labour and the emergence of cities: A spatial general equilibrium model

Spielvogel, Gilles - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2005

n this paper, we expose the economic conditions of cities emergence in a spatial general equilibrium framework. The presence of increasing returns based on the division of labour, transport costs and the possible existence of an agricultural surplus are enough to generate different possible...

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Agricultural surplus, division of labour and the emergence of cities. A spatial general equilibrium model

Spielvogel, Gilles - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003

In this paper, we expose the economic conditions of cities emergence in a spatial general equilibrium framework. The presence of increasing returns based on the division of labour, transport costs and the possible existence of an agricultural surplus are enough to generate different possible...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707418

Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2015

Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at a national level. Cities account for vast majorities...

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