suffer from primacy. However, FDI is attracted if surrounding countries have fewer cities, restrictions on international … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too … trade and low market potential (income per capita). We tentatively conclude that cities are important drivers of FDI and …

international grants to cities of the Global South. Additional funding through the generation of local revenues or market …While cities are important emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG), they are also vulnerable to the impacts of climate … change; at the same time they constitute innovation hubs for climate action. For cities to fulfil their potential for global …

State's Regiopolitan cities planners, require the most in their urban planning profession. In today's urban world …, understanding city dynamics, forecasting and predicting vibrant cities, making urban planning decisions and putting them into … urban plans, and building good personal and skilled relationships have all become highly complex and challenging. As a …

The tertiarisation, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialisation of the economy has left deep scars on cities … structures of cities. Industrialisation, collective wage setting, and the welfare state led to a stark reduction in income … increasing wage differentiation. Moreover, numerous studies on global cities, the dual city, and divided cities have also …

I studied the determinants of migration from urban Ethiopia to other countries, to rural areas and to other urban areas …. In general, the result differs by migration type. For international migration, wealth and network variables are found to … social capital theory has strong explanatory power for international migration, the human capital theory is important for …

hard currency. The plague also shifted the bank's merchant network towards Southern and Eastern Europe and away from the …

search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search …. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility … and trade lead to a pattern of specialization where large scale regions have a comparative advantage in producing …

'agglomeration in a system of cities' in which both intra-city trade and inter-city trade are considered. Enriching both the …-agglomeration (fewer cities, which tend to be over-sized) and low welfare; ii) the higher the level of spatial (i.e. transport costs) and … economic (i.e. intensity of trade) integration, the higher is the magnitude of the inefficiency. From a theoretical point of …