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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Banking and industrialization
Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 2015
We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
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Transitioning from a Smart City to a Cognitive City - The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies
Kansal, Sunil - 2023
The objective of this article is to explore the emergence of cognitive cities as the next step in urban development and to provide insights to city planners and administrators on how to create a connected and efficient physical environment that serves its citizens. By examining the key features...
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Of cities and slums
Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; … - 2016
The emergence of slums is a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and …
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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil
Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
positive effects of urbanization depend on the skilled and unskilled working together, a form of integration that is more …
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Railroads, technology adoption, and modern economic development : evidence from Japan
Yamasaki, Junichi - 2017
change and urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this particular mechanism in the … mean reversion in population growth, eventually leading to urbanization. My results support the view that railroad network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638910
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The Paradox of China's Growing Under-Urbanization
Chang, Gene H; Brada, Josef C. - 2006
development and that it has been eliminating this urbanization gap during the post-1978 period as a result of its economic reforms …. Our reexamination of the relationship between per capita income and urbanization that underpins the conventional view … suggests that China was not under-urbanized before or during the early period of the reform. Actually, China's urbanization gap …
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The Slow Decline of East Germany
Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...
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Railroads, technology adoption, and modern economic development: Evidence from Japan
Yamasaki, Junichi - 2017
change and urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this particular mechanism in the … mean reversion in population growth, eventually leading to urbanization. My results support the view that railroad network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013668
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The effects of rural land right security on labour structural transformation and urbanization : evidence from Thailand
Chankrajang, Thanyaporn - 2012
labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on … Although SPK4-01 titling alone is found to have no significant effect on urbanization, its impact depends significantly on … within-province transport infrastructure. More specifically, rural land right security increases urbanization more in …
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