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Agriculture, Development, and Urban Bias [PDF]
World Development, 2008 Throughout history, agriculture-led development strategies with state support programs have been essential to achieving rapid economy-wide growth, poverty reduction, and structural transformation. Yet over the last three decades, the domestic and international policy environments have continued to discriminate against agricultural development in the ...
Bezemer, Dirk J, Headey, Derek
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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]
, 2013 The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
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Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2020 In this research we analyse the most important factors that determine housing prices. On the one hand, we test whether neighbourhoods with a good accessibility are more attractive and consequently show higher housing prices.
Dirk Wittowsky +3 more
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A threshold model of urban development [PDF]
International Journal of Game Theory, 2018 AbstractWe propose a simple model of distribution of economic activity across cities of endogenous size and number determined by individual incentives. The individuals populating our model are endowed with idiosyncratic entrepreneurial creativity, the realization of which requires urban agglomeration linked to a crowding cost.
Alberto Vesperoni, Paul Schweinzer
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Progress Report (2014-2015) of the MDB Working Group on Sustainable Transport [PDF]
, 2015 1. In the third year of the Multilateral Development Banks¿1 (MDBs) Joint Statement of 2012, our eight MDBs are on target to meet the goal of the Commitment to Sustainable Transport (hereafter the Rio+20 Commitment) to provide more than $175 billion of ...
Inter-American Development Bank
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A Geospatial Analytical Framework for Assessing Land Use and Zoning Compliance: The Case of Zamboanga City [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesThe Local Government Code of 1991 (RA 7160) mandates Philippine local government units (LGUs) to formulate and implement Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUPs) and Zoning Ordinances (ZOs).
A. J. DC. Carrido +12 more
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Setting priorities for greening cities with monetary accounting values for amenity services of urban green [PDF]
One Ecosystem, 2022 Life Satisfaction Analyses in Germany reveal a significant positive correlation between the amount of green space within 1 km of residence and well-being.
Beyhan Ekinci +5 more
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Demography, urbanization and development: Rural push, urban pull and … urban push? [PDF]
Journal of Urban Economics, 2017 Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural-urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural modernization and rural poverty) and urban pull factors (industrialization and urban-biased policies). Using new historical data on urban birth and death rates for seven countries
Jedwab, Remi +2 more
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Assessing Institutional Readiness and Willingness of Philippine LGUs to Adopt Geospatial Land Use Monitoring Tools [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesLand use planning and monitoring are central to sustainable development, yet many Local Government Units (LGUs) in the Philippines face limited technical capacity, outdated tools, and weak institutional systems.
P. A. G. Felix +12 more
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Urban economics and development [PDF]
Intereconomics, 1986 China’s policy of opening the door to foreign business has sometimes aroused excessive expectations. Both in China and abroad, overoptimism has now been replaced by a more realistic appraisal of what can be achieved in economic terms. Nonetheless, Deng Xiaoping’s aim of quadrupling industrial and agricultural output1 by the year 2000 is still being ...
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