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Gultiano, Socorro A.; Flieger, Wilhelm - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1993

From a theoretical standpoint, the question has to be asked whether or not the census should retain its present definition of urban areas. There is a need for a more meaningful integration of the structural, institutional and demographic criteria, if the term is to hold substantive meaning. In...

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USING “GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE” CONCEPT IN ADAPTING CITIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE

TUCAN, Laura-Elena; BICA, Ioan - In: Romaqua 97 (2014) 7, pp. 51-56

The increasing level of urbanization, the general trend of extensive development of the modern cities, the urban …

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L'essor économique de l'Afrique. Motifs d'optimisme et de pessimisme

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Fengler, Wolfgang - In: Revue d’économie du développement 21 (2013) 4, pp. 97-113

Sub-Saharan Africa?s GDP has grown five percent a year since 2000 and is expected to grow even faster in the future. Although pessimists are quick to point out that this growth has followed increases in commodities prices, the success of recent political reforms and the increased openness of...

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School and its «Restructuring»

Levinson, Aleksey; Ol'ga Stuchevskaja - In: Educational Studies (2006) 3, pp. 254-267

The changes in the education system are put by the authors into a broader framework of urbanization and …

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China's energy demand and its characteristics in the industrialization and urbanization process

Jiang, Zhujun; Lin, Boqiang - In: Energy Policy 49 (2012) C, pp. 608-615

China is currently in the process of industrialization and urbanization, which is the key stage of transition from a … urbanization as follows: (1) urbanization always goes along with industrialization; (2) the higher economic growth is, the higher …

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Interpreting Institutional Fit: Urbanization, Development, and China’s “Land-Lost”

Lian, Hongping; Lejano, Raul P. - In: World Development 61 (2014) C, pp. 1-10

Urbanization-led development brings not just demographic, technological, and economic change, but profound … institutional transition, as well. The scale and pace of China’s urbanization project have generated a crisis for millions living in … rural–urban peripheries. We will utilize a model of institutional fit to conduct a critical analysis of China’s urbanization …

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Estimating the impact of the financial development on energy consumption: Evidence from the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries

Al-mulali, Usama; Lee, Janice Y.M. - In: Energy 60 (2013) C, pp. 215-221

, it was found that LEC (energy consumption), the LFD (financial development), GDP (LGDP), LUR (urbanization) and LTD …

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Urban continuum in Jharkhand: Beyond the state formation

Kumar, Niteen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Urbanization as an important area for development intervention and as a reflection of economic prosperity is … paper outlines the different facets of urbanization process along with the heterogeneity of urbanization process in … of future urban growth in the region. The results depict lopsided urbanization with maximum concentration of population …

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CONSEQUENCES OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS

Radu, Liviu; Radu, Carmen - In: Global Economic Observer 2 (2014) 2, pp. 161-172

discouraging. An accelerated urbanization of the states is foreseen, as well as the decrease of birthrates, negative external …

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Structural Change, Urban Congestion, and the End of Growth

Grossmann, Volker - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2011

This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel’s...

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