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Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It`s broadly perceived as multidimensional phenomenon which deprives people from basic capabilities and freedoms, limits their opportunity to educate and fully participate in the...
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urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide … thresholds of urbanization. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity across countries through fixed effects and using a variety … of spatial econometric techniques, we find a robust association between earlier urbanization and agro …
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, and urbanization with ecological footprint employing a panel of 118 countries from 1971 to 2018. Further, for deeper …. Urbanization increases the ecological footprint for all income panels except high-income economies. Financial development increases …
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In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...
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Rapid population growth, urbanization, and the growing challenges faced by the urban poor require redefining the …
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This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions within the STIRPAT framework over the period 1971 to … results robustly show an inverted N-shaped relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions in the long-term associated … urbanization tend to reduce CO2 emissions in the long-term. The estimated turning point for the urbanization ratio after which CO2 …
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's population is likely to level off from the middle of the 21st century, probably ending up around 10 billion, further urbanization …
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