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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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Immigration : a way out of the Swedish rural population crisis : paper prepared for the ERSA conference in Vienna, August 23-26, 2016, Session G_J. Migrations, diasporas, and ageing in the regions

Johansson, Mats - 2016

During the past decades immigration to Sweden has increased sharply and this has had an impact on urban as well as rural population development. During the era of labour immigration the immigrants were spread all over the country in line with labour demand but during the past decades the with...

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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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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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Rural and urban migrants in India : 1983 - 2008

Hnatkovska, Viktoria; Lahiri, Amartya - In: 2014 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics …, (pp. 257-270). 2015

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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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Defining the rural area in Romania : legislative approaches

Stanciu, Violeta Chiriloaie - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 293-299). 2016

This article is an analysis of how the rural area was defined in the Romanian legislation starting with the oldest law in force until last legislative initiatives in the field. The texts of Romanian legal acts were studied comparatively and against the provisions of the European Charter of Rural...

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Urbanization and economic development in Russia

Kolomak, Evgenija Anatolʹevna - 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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"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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Urban deforestation and urban development

Franco, Sofia; Sa, Antonieta; Rosa, Renato - 2011

Forests can play a major role in climate regulation by reducing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Forests also provide a range of other ecological goods and services such as biodiversity and watershed protection and amenity benefits. On the other hand,...

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