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Urbanization and the Geography of Development

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2014

herald cities with their industrial bases as “engines of growth,” does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also … influence the urbanization process. In fact, the relationship between industrialization and urbanization is absent in Sub …

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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...

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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

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Urbanization with and without industrialization

Gollin, Douglas; Jedwab, Remi; Vollrath, Dietrich - In: Journal of economic growth 21 (2016) 1, pp. 35-70

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Resource-exhausted city transition to continue industrial development

Sun, Yajie; Liao, Wen-Chi - In: China economic review : an international journal 67 (2021), pp. 1-20

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Econometric analysis of the effect of economic globalization, energy intensity, urbanization,industrialization and growth on CO² emissions of Bangladesh

Sharmin, Mowshumi; Tareque, Mohammad - In: Managing global transitions : international research journal 16 (2018) 4, pp. 335-354

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Geography and development

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2000

Why are some spatial differences in land rents and wages not bid away by firms and individuals in search of low-cost or high-income locations? Why does economic activity cluster in centers of activity? And what are the consequences of remoteness from existing centers?

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Cultural political economy of small cities

Lorentzen, Anne (contributor); Heur, Bas van (contributor) - 2012

shrinking city / Nina Gribat -- 13. Landscapes of nostalgia : place marketing and nostalgia in the American small town …

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From warfare to wealth : the military origins of urban prosperity in Europe

Dincecco, Mark; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano - 2018

Introduction -- The importance of warfare -- Europe's urban rise -- Evaluating the safe harbor effect -- Evaluating the warfare-to-wealth effect -- Warfare to wealth in comparative perspective -- Epilogue

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Murmurs of an industrial revolution in Africa : is it time for Africa?

Chitonge, Horman - In: Handbook of industrial development, (pp. 54-74). 2023

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