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Reimagining India's urban future : a framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India

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Patterns in US urban growth (1790-2000)

González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa-Santolaria, Luis Fernando - 2013

This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...

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Skilled scalable services : the new urban bias in economic growth

Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - 2020

Since 1980, economic growth in the U.S. has been fastest in its largest cities. We show that a group of skill- and information-intensive service industries are responsible for all of this new urban bias in recent growth. We then propose a simple explanation centered around the interaction of...

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Urban growth and aggregate growth in China

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Determinants of urbanization

Hofman, Anett; Wan, Guangha - 2013

In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the … People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous … Urbanization Prospects, we use an instrumental variables approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants. We …

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