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Focusing on Indonesia, this study analyzes the relationship between inequality and the process of urbanization …. Itperforms a panel data regression analysis to test the Kuznets inverted-U hypothesis for urbanization based on a provincial … a measure of inequality. According to our estimates, expenditure inequality would reach the peak at an urbanization rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698156
Focusing on Indonesia, this study analyzes the relationship between inequality and the process of urbanization. It … performs a panel data regression analysis to test the Kuznets inverted-U hypothesis for urbanization based on a provincial … a measure of inequality. According to our estimates, expenditure inequality would reach the peak at an urbanization rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699654
There has been a rapid trend towards urbanisation in India particularly after independence in spite of the predominant rural nature of our economy. Assam is one of those states of India, which is traditionally rural in character with agriculture and allied activities being the primary occupation...
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Recent discussions in the Economic Geography literature increasingly focus on creative cities and the importance of creativity for achieving economic growth. Considering the increased attention on urban areas it is not surprising that the regional dimension of entrepreneurship is a subject of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090585
human capital, which is solely accumulated in cities, such that urbanization is the engine of growth. In an empirical … illustration, we highlight the link between urbanization and human capital accumulation, by focusing on cross-country panel data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043358
I review the current theoretical and econometric literature on the economic dynamics of urbanization and its relation … to economic growth. I then report research results on the short- and long-term impacts of urbanization on human … variables to predict quinquennial changes in income, health, education and urbanization. The long-term analysis is a fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010687842
urbanization process and economic specialization of cities in Mali. We first construct an exhaustive panel data set of the 10 … complete distribution of urban and rural localities from 1976 to 1998. We show that the urbanization process in Mali is mainly … to public infrastructure amenities rather than urbanization externalities or sectoral externalities, the latter being not …
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I review the current theoretical and econometric literature on the economic dynamics of urbanization and its relation … to economic growth. I then report research results on the short- and long-term impacts of urbanization on human … variables to predict quinquennial changes in income, health, education and urbanization. The long-term analysis is a fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823292
Standard models explain urbanization by rural-urban migration in response to an (expected) urban-rural wage gap. The … agglomeration and providing further insights into the phenomenon of urbanization without growth. Both migra- tion and urban … demographics must be considered in debating urbanization. …
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ABSTRACT. A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9...
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