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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities
Li, Jun - 2013
investigating 'what works in foreign aid on urbanization and green cities', 'what could work', and 'what is scalable and … transferable in foreign aid on urbanization and green cities'. Three case studies are carried out: Tianjin City which was …Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739573
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Cities in the 21st century: A view from the developing world
Castells-Quintana, David; Herrera, Paula - In: REGION 6 (2019) 2, pp. E1-E6
In this (introductory) paper, we present i) some basic figures about the rise of cities in the developing world, and ii … cities of the developing world in the 21st century to the frontline, hoping to motivate further and much needed research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591489
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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)
rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is … concentrate in one or few large metropolitan areas of disproportionate size. While urbanisation has been long recognised as a … fundamental element of the process of economic development, sustainable urbanisation has become one of the main and more pressing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490043
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William - 2014
connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159021
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William - 2015
We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with … urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities … entrepreneurship for cities in the 1970s and onward in industries unrelated to mining. We use historical mines as an instrument for our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040278
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Chapter 22. The Geography of Development Within Countries
Desmet, Klaus; Henderson, J. Vernon - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 1457-1517). 2015
This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural–urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural–urban distinction, we then focus on the continuum of locations in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025293
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Concentration of resources and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25
In this letter I summarise the main results and contributions from my Ph.D. thesis on concentration of resources and economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in modern economic development, namely increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304117
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013
connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start- ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859538
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012
connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567252
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Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2014
rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is … concentrate in one or few large metropolitan areas of disproportionate size. While urbanisation has been long recognised as a … fundamental element of the process of economic development, sustainable urbanisation has become one of the main and more pressing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400141