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Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Towards a renewed perspective on the city

Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi - 2011

This paper argues for a more systemic engagement with Latin American cities, contending it is necessary to reconsider their unity in order to nuance the 'fractured cities' perspective that has widely come to epitomise the contemporary urban moment in the region. It begins by offering an overview...

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Cities and Satellites: Spatial Effects and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Modeling of Urban Growth

Vance, Colin; Iovanna, Rich - 2008

capture both why urbanization happens as well as where and when it happens. Using a database that links five satellite images …

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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...

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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 2004

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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …

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Rural labor absorption efficiency in urban areas under different urbanization patterns and industrial structures: The case of China

Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - 2011

under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor …

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BRICS: World heavyweight in agricultural trade

Glauben, Thomas; Djuric, Ivan - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 3, pp. 160-166

BRICS, the 15-year-old alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has emerged as an important actor on the global political and economic stage, not least by expanding its membership to include middle-power states Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in...

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Building BRICS: 2-Stage DEA analysis of R&D efficiency

Cai, Yuezhou; Hanley, Aoife - 2012

Should inputs such as bank finance affect innovation in BRICS vs. developed countries similarly? Arguably these elasticities may depend on a country's economic progress (Gerschenkron, 1962; Liu and White, 2001). Applying a combination of DEA and Tobit to a sample of 22 countries, we show how...

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Urban Growth in Germany – The Impact of Localization and Urbanization Economies

Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009

This study examines the impact of localization and urbanization economies as well as the impact of city size on urban … Untersuchung für die Städte in Deutschland deuten auf eine Uförmige Beziehung zwischen Spezialisierung und Stadtwachstum hin …

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The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Zenou, Yves - 2005

The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy...

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