Search Results - subject:"Urban development"

Uganda Economic Update, February 2015

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2015

Fankhauser, Sam; Kazaglis, Alex; Srivastav, Sugandha - 2017

This paper assesses the low-carbon economy in Asia: how large it is today and how well it will fare in the future. Using patent and trade data, it analyzes the potential of Asian economies to capture value from the design and export of low-carbon technologies, acknowledging that these are only...

Exploring the trade-urbanization nexus in developing economies : evidence and implications

Zhang, Yuan; Wan, Guanghua - 2017

developing economies. Policy suggestions that may help developing countries achieve more inclusive and sustainable urban … development are discussed in the final section of this paper. …

Infrastructure development, income inequality, and urban sustainability in the People's Republic of China

Mendoza, Octasiano M. Valerio - 2017

's Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development … disparities at the city level remain undetermined. Using 10 city-level infrastructure indicators relating to sustainable urban … development and city income inequality measures, calculated using the China Household Income Project (CHIP) Surveys, this study …

Savings banks and the industrial revolution in Prussia : supporting regional development with public financial institutions

Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle H.; Wahl, Fabian - 2017

We show that smaller, regional public financial intermediaries significantly contributed to industrial development, using a new data set of the foundation year and location of Prussian savings banks. This extends the banking-growth nexus beyond its traditional focus on the large universal banks,...

Measuring the stringency of land-use regulation : the case of China's building-height limits

Brueckner, Jan K.; Fu, Shihe; Gu, Yizhen; Zhang, Junfu - 2016

This paper develops a new approach for measuring the stringency of a major form of land-use regulation, building-height restrictions, and it applies the method to an extraordinary dataset of land-lease transactions from China. Our theory shows that the elasticity of land price with respect to...

Impact of infrastructure investment on tax : estimating spillover effects of the Kyushu high-speed rail Line in Japan on regional tax revenue

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2016

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991, the Kyushu high-speed rail line was constructed and was completed in 2003. In 2004, the rail line started operating from Kagoshima to Kumamoto. The entire line was opened in...

Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills

Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016

. First, a highly skilled workforce is the engine of urban development, increasing urban wages and population. Second, big …

Interrogating Qatar's urbanity as a catalyst for building knowledge-based societies and economies

Alraouf, Ali A. - In: Strategies of knowledge transfer for economic …, (pp. 53-66). 2018

Can Tho, Vietnam : Enhancing Urban Resilience

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank Group - 2014