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Urbanisation in developing economies : building cities that work
Venables, Anthony - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 5 (2018) 1, pp. 91-100
sets out some of the broad facts about African urbanisation and summarises two recent pieces of research work. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876190
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Cities in the Developing World
Overman, Henry; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
Rapid urbanisation is a major feature of developing countries. Some 2 billion more people are likely to become city … residents in the next 30 years, yet urbanisation has received little attention in the modern development economics literature …. This paper reviews theoretical and empirical work on the determinants and effects of urbanisation. This suggests that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016743
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Urbanisation in developing economies: Building cities that work
Venables, Anthony - In: REGION 5 (2018) 1, pp. 91-100
sets out some of the broad facts about African urbanisation and summarises two recent pieces of research work. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591432
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Backwardness, Industrialisation and Economic Development in Europe
Adarov, Amat; Holzner, Mario; Sikic, Luka - 2016
The present work uses long-term economic development data (1952-2010) as well as a detailed industry-level panel data (1963-2011) to analyse industrialisation patterns in Europe, implications of economic backwardness and the role of European integration in facilitating industrialisation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311512
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Can cities or towns drive African development? : economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545470
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Rethinking Urban Development
Eagle, Steven - 2012
This short article discusses urban redevelopment, and its relation to economic productivity and various concepts of well being. It notes that solutions adopted in one era are apt to be the problems of the next. The article then introduces the four articles comprising the George Mason Law Review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106272
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Demography, Democracy, Development and Urban Protest in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fox, Sean - 2021
Why are some countries in sub-Saharan Africa more prone to outbreaks of urban protests than others? Drawing together insights from the contentious politics and conflict studies literatures I develop an empirical model of protest incidence comprised of basic demographic, political and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221898
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Human Capital, Urbanization and Dynamics of Economic Growth and Development
Mehmood, Rashid; Zia; Lal, Irfan - 2022
Process of economic growth and development has been shifted towards new strategies of entrepreneurship, institutional developments and market development. The shifting of development process towards new strategies needs human capital, developed infrastructure and effective policy reforms. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290234
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Historical legacies and urbanization : evidence from Chinese concessions
Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2019
This paper shows how colonial powers permanently shaped the pattern of Chinese cities through the establishment of Concessions - foreign enclaves within Chinese cities. Based on a sample of 130 city districts within 10 Chinese cities, we find that districts with Concessions have higher land...
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Urbanization, Urban Concentration and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric - 2004
We investigate how urban concentration and urbanization affect economic growth in developing countries. Using semi-parametric estimation techniques on a cross-country panel of 39 countries for the years 1960-1990 we discover a U-shaped relationship for urban concentration. this suggests the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074704