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Moretti, Enrico - 2014

Urban areas tend to have much more productive labor and higher salaries than rural areas, and there are vast differences across urban areas. Areas with high salaries and high productivity tend to have employers that invest in much more research and development than areas with low salaries and...

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Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, and Cities

Lerner, Joshua - 2014

Since the 2008-09 global financial crises, interest among policy makers in promoting innovative, ventures has exploded. The emerging great hubs of entrepreneurial activity, like Bangalore, Dubai, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Tel Aviv, bear the unmistakable stamp of the public sector....

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The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2013

, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for more than 99 percent of establishments and 80 percent of employment in … manufacturing. Second, the unorganized sector is stubbornly persistent -- it accounted for 81 percent of manufacturing employment in … states show limited change in unorganized sector employment shares. Fourth, the degree to which localized unorganized …

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China's Pattern of Growth : Moving to Sustainability and Reducing Inequality

Kuijs, Louis; Wang, Tao - 2012

unsustainable levels, lower urban employment growth, and widen the rural-urban income gap. Instead, reducing subsidies to industry … growth in urban employment, and a substantial reduction in the income gap between rural and urban residents. …

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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda

Bundervoet, Tom; Maiyo, Laban; Sanghi, Apurva - 2015

This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...

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Urbanization and the Geography of Development

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2014

This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is...

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Growing through Cities in Developing Countries

Duranton, Gilles - 2014

This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic. It then argues that more productive jobs in cities do not exist in a void and underscores the...

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Agglomeration Economies and Productivity in Indian Industry

Deichmann, Uwe; Lall, Somik V.; Shalizi, Zmarak - 2001

"New" economic geography theory, and the development of innovative methods of analysis have renewed interest in the location, and spatial concentration of economic activities. The authors examine the extent to which agglomeration economies contribute to economic productivity. They distinguish...

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Geography and Development

Henderson, J. Vernon; Shalizi, Zmarak; Venables, Anthony - 2000

The most striking fact about the economic geography of the world is the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, including the coexistence of economic development and underdevelopment. High-income regions are almost entirely concentrated in a few temperate zones, half of the world's GDP...

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Inclusive Economic Growth in America’s Cities : What’s the Playbook and the Score?

Pendall, Rolf; Rubin, Victor; Briggs, Xavier de Souza - 2015

This paper defines economic inclusion as the ability of all people, including the disadvantaged, to share in economic gains, that is, the conditions that allow for broadly shared prosperity. Beyond the “right” to access consumption in cities, and beyond relatively standardized safety net...

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