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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas?Evidence from a Developing Country

Nguyen, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression and panel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on income and consumption expenditure of rural households in Vietnam. Then we … propose a simple estimate method to estimate the effect of urbanization on rural poverty. It is found that a one percent …

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"Megacities and countries : urbanization and real convergence"

Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014

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 million...

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Technical and economic feasibility of the use of airships within two Portuguese market niches : the tourism and the urban logistic case studies

Santos, Rafael; Silva, Jorge - 2012

All over the world there are several countries where airships are being used for military and civilian purposes. The rebirth of this mean of transportation, capable of easily overcoming some deficiencies of the conventional ones, brings medium and long term economic benefits. In addition, they...

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Patterns in US urban growth (1790-2000)

González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa-Santolaria, Luis Fernando - 2013

This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...

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Urbanization and spatial connectivity in Ethiopia: Urban growth analysis using GIS

Schmidt, Emily; Kedir, Mekamu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

In comparison to other African countries, Ethiopia has a low urbanization rate. According to the World Bank World … Development Report (WDR) 2009, Sub-Sahara Africa is 30% urbanized, whereas Ethiopia is only 10.9% urbanized. Urbanization rates … Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia reports a 16% urbanization rate. In an effort to standardize and measure Ethiopian …

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Urbanization and spatial connectivity in Ethiopia:

Schmidt, Emily; Kedir, Mekamu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

This study uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques to estimate urbanization rates in Ethiopia, using a … areas. Defining the minimum population of an urban area as 50,000, the urbanization rate has risen from only 3.7 percent in …

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"Robin Hook": The developmental effects of Somali piracy

Shortland, Anja - 2011

Naval counter-piracy measures off Somalia have failed to change the incentives for pirates, raising calls for land-based approaches that may involve replacing piracy as a source of income. This paper evaluates the effects of piracy on the Somali economy to establish which (domestic) groups...

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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...

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The geography of creative people in Germany revisited

Fritsch, Michael; Stuetzer, Michael - 2012

It has been argued that creativity is an important source of regional growth. This paper investigates the geography of people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share of the creative class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places...

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Dynamic Clusters

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Globalization has had an enormous impact on traditional industrial structures. It seems almost the case that everything is everywhere the same. And yet, in reality, some regions in a single industrialized country enjoy rapid economic growth while others are downsizing or stagnating. Thus there...

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