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The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities

Wall, Howard J. - 2011

This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of non-neighboring cities, although this is due primarily to neighbors' tendency to be in the same state. In...

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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy

Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the … consequences -- in particular, the policy implications -- of the ongoing urbanization in the African LDCs. It is found that the … emerging trends and patterns of urbanization in the African LDCs within a dynamic dual-dual framework with a strong emphasis on …

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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States

Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018

A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...

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Large reservoirs: are they the last Oasis for the survival of cities in India?

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Shah, Zankhana; Kumar, M. Dinesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

capacities of large cities to respond to the growing water demands, induced by population growth and urbanization. The future …

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The Cost of Misguided Urbanization: The Case of Informal Settlements in Butuan City, Philippines

Navarro, Ma. Kresna; Almaden, Catherine Roween - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The informal settlements in Butuan City, Philippines pose the intractable problem of housing and providing services for the urban poor. They exact tremendous costs to government infrastructure projects and the city as a whole. In this study, these costs are accounted for, particularly the costs...

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Development of industrial estates, ports and metropolitan and alternative roads in the Greater Hanoi Area

Nguyen, Binh Giang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper outlined the urbanization as well as the development of the industrial parks and transportation … growing very fast during the past 20 years. It has not, however, caught up with the rapid urbanization and industrial park …

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An Exploratory Note on Interstate Living-Cost Differentials

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985

living cost level is found to be an increasing function of population density, average income, and the degree of urbanization …

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Urbanization as a way of saving our planet from overpopulation

Shcherbakova, Nadezda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper explores whether biological mechanisms, induced by the overpopulation of a territory, exert essential influence on cities' growth, and whether the level of economic development of a country is significant, when biological mechanisms are in operation. To answer these questions, four...

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An Empirical Analysis of Identity Theft Determinants in the U.S.

Cebula, Richard; Koch, James; Unemori, Mary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This study finds that ID theft rates tend to be an increasing function of the unemployment rate and the proportion of the population concentrated in urban areas, and a decreasing function of the relative amount of resources devoted to laws enforcement and the percentage of individuals who claim...

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The Weight of Economic Growth and Urbanization on Electricity Demand in UAE

Sbia, Rashid; Shahbaz, Muhammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study aims to explore the relationship between economic growth, urbanization, financial development and … relationship between urbanization and electricity consumption is also inverted U-shaped. This implies that urbanization increases … electricity consumption initially and after a threshold level of urbanization, electricity demand falls. The causality analysis …

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