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Where to Create Jobs to Reduce Poverty : Cities Or Towns?
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question, this paper extends the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration from rural areas to two potential destinations,...
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Informal Employment in Urban China : Measurement and Implications
Park, Albert - 2012
Because of China's socialist legacy, until recently little attention has been paid to the rise of informal employment … in China by analyzing data from recent household surveys collected in six large Chinese cities in 2010. The surveys were … authors provide a number of insights into the extent and nature of informal employment and labor market development in China …
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Creating Markets in Morocco : A Second Generation of Reforms - Boosting Private Sector Growth, Job Creation and Skills Upgrading
International Finance Corporation - 2019
Morocco has steered significant resources towards large investments in economic sectors identified as strategic to growth, and for increased productivity and value addition. Despite Morocco's strikingly high investment rate, one of the highest in the world at an average of thirty-four percent of...
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Business environment and dual-track private sector development : China’s experience in two crucial decades
Long, Xiaoning; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yang, Jin - 2020
A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial … better educated, with more diverse sectoral experience. Market competition increased over time, especially after China …
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Moral hazard vs. land scarcity : flood management policies for the real world
Avner, Paolo; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019
This paper investigates the costs and benefits of three ex ante flood management strategies - risk-based insurance, zoning, and subsidized insurance - in an urban economics framework that takes land scarcity into account. In a theoretical setting and in the absence of market failures, risk-based...
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The hidden wealth of cities : creating, financing, and managing public spaces
Kher Kaw, Jon (ed.); Lee, Hyunji (ed.); Wahba, Sameh (ed.) - 2020
This book identifies effective strategies to plan, create and manage government and privately-owned public urban spaces, and explores the broad spectrum of ways to govern public spaces and how they can be financially sustainable assets. The book consists of three Parts. Part I explores the...
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Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda : Economic and Spatial Trends and Proposals
World Bank Group - 2017
Rwanda has demonstrated a remarkable performance in economic growth and poverty reduction in the past decade and a half. With urbanization as an explicit developmental strategy, the government has indeed made significant efforts to prepare a solid foundation on which urban development can take...
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Mexico Urbanization Review : Managing Spatial Growth for Productive and Livable Cities in Mexico
Kim, Yoonhee - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
Despite impressive economic growth and increasing prosperity, cities in Mexico do not seem to have fully captured the benefits of urban agglomeration, in part because of rapid and uncoordinated urban growth. Recent expansion of many Mexican cities has been distant, disconnected, and dispersed,...
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Matchmaking in Nairobi : The Role of Land Use
Avner, Paolo - 2016
Well-functioning cities reduce the economic distance between people and economic opportunities. Cities thrive because they enable matchmaking-among people, among firms, and between people and job opportunities. This paper examines employment accessibility in Nairobi, Kenya and evaluates whether...
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Evaluating the Potential Returns to Investing in Green Urban Development in Durban
Turpie, Jane - 2017
Urbanisation is taking place at an unprecedented rate throughout the world, often outpacing plans and the capacity of city managers. As a result, natural open space areas in cities are being degraded and diminished, and problems such as flooding, air and water pollution are getting worse. The...
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