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Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion - The Public Economics of Farmland Development Allowance

Chau, Nancy H. - 2014

For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts sharply with another salient feature of the Chinese land policy reform landscape that has gone on largely unnoticed - the addition of newly cultivated land in China through land...

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Harnessing the forces of urban expansion : the public economics of farmland development allowance

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On Engineering Urban Densification

Eagle, Steven - 2015

City planning in America began as a Progressive Era exercise, intended to pre-serve property values and implicitly incorporate the social norms of officials and planners. Over time, rigid zoning was replaced by flexibility, accompanied by opaque bargaining between localities and developers....

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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

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Human Capital, Urbanization and Dynamics of Economic Growth and Development

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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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The Incentive Role of Creating 'Cities' in China

Li, Lixing - 2011

This paper examines a distinctive mechanism of providing incentives to local governments - upgrading counties to cities. In China, awarding city status to existing counties is the dominant way of creating new urban administrative units, during which the local government gets many benefits. Using...

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