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Approaching integrated urban-rural development in China : the changing institutional roles

Li, Yuheng; Hu, Zhichao; Liu, Yansui - 2014 - (Incomplete manuscript for 2014 ERSA conference)

Ever since the twenty-first century, the Chinese government has been undertaking a series of rural-favored policies and measures to promote comprehensive development in rural China. The fundamental purpose is to accomplish integrated urban-rural development (IURD) given the ever enlarging...

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Infrastructure's long-lived impact on urban development : theory and empirics

Grimes, Arthur L.; Apatov, Eyal; Lutchmann, Larissa; … - 2014

We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy-makers to understand the intended, and potentially...

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Commuting as a rural growth strategy? : evidence from Sweden

Lavesson, Niclas - 2014

The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which rural regions benefit from closeness to large cities. It is often argued that rural regions can enjoy urban-based growth through urban sprawl, i.e. deconcentration of urban activities to rural regions. Analyses of rural regions in e.g....

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City of God redux : inequality, migration, and violent crime in Brazil between 1980 and 2000

Freire, Tiago - 2015

There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some previous studies suggest that these results hold in the short term only. This could result from measurement error in income inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement...

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Bucharest Metropolitan Area and its external hinterland : spread or backwash effects? : 54th Congress of European Regional Science Association, August 26-29, 2014, Sankt Petersburg...

Grosu, Raluca Mariana; Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; … - 2014 - Draft

Even if it has not a legal status yet, the Bucharest Metropolitan Area (BMA) project is in an advanced preparation phase, already producing effects in the real economy. Conventionally, BMA imbeds the entire Ilfov county (which surrounds it and form together the Bucharest-Ilfov region (NUTS 2))...

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"Urbanization and decentralization : the changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services" : paper for 54th European regional Science Association Con...

Braun, Joachim von - 2014

"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization with concepts of economic geography …

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Urbanization and economic development in Russia

Kolomak, Evgenija A. - 2012

The paper studies trends in the urbanization in Russia and compares them with the global ones. Russia has high level of … urbanization, urban population reached 73% in 1990, and the rate of urbanization fluctuates around this level past 20 years. The …, 1999, and 2004. The paper discusses advantages and disadvantages of the urbanization to the economic development and …

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Evading terror? : terror attacks and internal migration in Israel

Borstel, Johanna von; Gobien, Tom; Roth, Duncan - 2014 - Preliminary draft

This paper empirically analyses the relationship between terror incidents and internal migration in Israel. Using a newly created database of region-to-region migration flows for the years 1998-2012, the empirical model regresses the annual flow of migrants from an origin subdistrict to a...

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Internal migration and EU regional policy transfer payments : a panel data analysis for 28 EU member countries

Schmidt, Peter - 2016

This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policy transfer payments on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. The hypothesis is tested that EU transfer payments do hamper internal migration across the EU. On the one hand, this is done by reestimating the results found by Egger,...

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Provincial international migration distribution in Spain : which factors are behind?

Villaverde, José; Maza, Adolfo; Hierro, María - 2011

International migration issues are at the forefront of the political debate in the European Union (EU). Some reasons justify the increasing relevance of this topic, being the unprecedented scale of international migration flows, especially in countries such as Spain, the most prominent. In fact,...

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