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Growth, Urbanization, and Poverty Reduction in India

Datt, Gaurav; Murgai, Rinku; Ravallion, Martin - 2016

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991,...

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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 … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also …

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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 …

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What Makes Cities Healthy?

Yusuf, Shahid; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Ha, Wei - 2012

The benefits of good health to individuals and to society are strongly positive and improving the health of the poor is a key Millennium Development Goal. A typical health strategy advocated by some is increased public spending on health targeted to favor the poor and backed by foreign...

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Urbanization without Growth : A Not-So-Uncommon Phenomenon

Fay, Marianne; Opal, Charlotte - 2000

To find out why African countries' experience with urbanization and sustained growth appeared to differ from that of … other countries, the authors investigated the determinants of urbanization across countries over 40 years. Rather than … opportunities. If location incentives are distorted, so is growth. The authors find that urbanization levels are closely correlated …

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How Urban Concentration Affects Economic Growth

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2000

The author explores the issue of urban over-concentration econometrically, using data from a panel of 80 to 100 countries every 5 years from 1960 to 1995. He finds the following: 1) At any level of development there is indeed a best degree or national urban concentration. It increases sharply as...

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Sharing Oil Rents and Political Violence

Cordella, Tito; Onder, Harun - 2016

This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to...

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Oil and the Propensity to Armed Struggle in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Oyefusi, Aderoju - 2012

This paper attempts to explain the determinants of the propensity to armed struggle and the probability of participation by individuals in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using primary (micro) data. While grievance appears to be pervasive among individuals and communities in the region and can...

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Management of Oil Windfalls in Mexico : Historical Experience and Policy Options for the Future

Duval-Hernández, Robert; Everhart, Stephen S. - 2001

The macroeconomic impact of commodity windfalls has provided fertile ground for research since the 1970s. Particularly affected are developing countries that rely heavily on commodity exports. in the case of oil windfalls, cross-country experience is vast: Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria,...

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A Global Assessment of Domestic Petroleum Fuel Prices

Akcura, Elcin - 2025

Oil prices have been increasingly volatile since 2004. However, the impact of this volatility on domestic end-user prices differs significantly by fuel and country. Some countries fully pass through global price movements to domestic end-user prices, and some countries freeze domestic fuel...

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