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Governance and Urban Development: Case Study of Metro Manila

Manasan, Rosario G.; Mercado, Ruben G. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1999

This paper explains the evolution of the metropolitan organizations that have been established to oversee the development of Metro Manila, provides a survey of their responsibilities, authorities, organizational structure, financing, institutional relationships as well as briefly assess their...

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The Spatial and Urban Aspects of Philippine Development: Part I

Pernia, Ernesto M. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1981

While research on Philippine urbanization and spatial development has been very useful, researches on these areas are … highly fragmented. This paper provides a survey of literature on urbanization and spatial concentration of population and …

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The effects of urbanization, consumption ratio and consumption structure on residential indirect CO2 emissions in China: A regional comparative analysis

Yuan, Baolong; Ren, Shenggang; Chen, Xiaohong - In: Applied Energy 140 (2015) C, pp. 94-106

Decomposition Analysis (SDA) model is proposed to investigate the regional variations of impacts of urbanization, consumption ratio …, expansion of urbanization and upgrade of consumption structure play important roles in the growth of residential indirect …

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Does economic growth affect urbanization? New evidence from China and the Chinese National Congress

He, Xiaobo; Sim, Nicholas C.S. - In: Journal of Asian Economics 36 (2015) C, pp. 62-71

-province effect that per capita GDP growth may have on the urbanization rate. Our approach exploits the timing of the National … information, we also find that growth has a statistically significant effect on the urbanization rate. …

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Linking financial development, economic growth and energy consumption in Pakistan

Komal, Rabia; Abbas, Faisal - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 44 (2015) C, pp. 211-220

through economic growth channel and includes energy prices and urbanization in the structural model. The study finds positive … and significant impact of economic growth and urbanization on energy consumption, while the effect of energy prices over …

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Quantifying slum electrification in India and explaining local variation

Aklin, Michaël; Bayer, Patrick; Harish, S.P.; … - In: Energy 80 (2015) C, pp. 203-212

Unreliable electricity supply is a major obstacle to economic development in countries such as India. While electricity problems in the rural areas are widely recognized, scholars have yet to analyze the situation in urban slums. Drawing on 2004–2005 survey data from the India Human...

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How can one explain changes in the monthly pattern of suicide?

Roehner, Bertrand M. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 424 (2015) C, pp. 350-362

The monthly pattern of suicides has remained a puzzle ever since it was discovered in the second half of the 19th century. In this paper we intend to “explain” not the pattern itself but rather its changes across countries and in the course of time.

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Study on the Thermal Effects and Air Quality Improvement of Green Roof

Luo, Heng; Wang, Ning; Chen, Jianping; Ye, Xiaoyan; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 3, pp. 2804-2817

process of urbanization, especially in developing countries. A number of measures have been proposed, among which roof …

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The Effect of Urbanization, Affluence and Trade Openness on Energy Consumption: A Time Series Analysis in Malaysia

Shahbaz, Muhammad; Sbia, Rashid; Nanthakumar, Loganathan; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of urbanization on energy consumption by applying the Stochastic Impacts by … that urbanization is a major contributor in energy consumption. Affluence raises energy demand. Capital stock boosts energy … consumption. Trade openness leads affluence and hence increases energy consumption. The causality analysis finds that urbanization …

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УРБАНИЗАЦИОННАЯ РОЛЬ ИНФРАСТРУКТУРЫ В РАЗВИТИИ ГОРОДСКОЙ ЭКОНОМИКИ

ВИКТОРОВНА, ЭРЛИХ ГАЛИНА - In: Вестник Южно-Уральского … (2011) 3, pp. 164-166

Статья посвящена анализу влияния урбанизации на развитие инфраструктуры городской экономики, методике оценки городских инфраструктурных объектов в процессе...

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