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Skyscrapers in the Twenty-First Century City: A Global Snapshot
Buildings, 2018 The first two decades of the twenty-first century represent a major milestone in skyscraper developments. By analyzing extensive data, the research presented here contrasts building activities of skyscrapers before and after the turn of the 21st century.
Kheir Al-Kodmany
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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Positioning the Urban in the Global Knowledge Economy: Increasing Competitiveness or Inequality
Social Inclusion, 2020 Major cities are increasingly focused on being competitive on an international scale, developing innovative service sectors and investing in human capital.
Tatjana Boczy +3 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper underscores the critical role of multisectoral convergence in enhancing child health, particularly in addressing anemia, a micronutrient deficiency linked to both diet and sanitation. We explore how the integration of nationwide food and nutrition programs with sanitation initiatives impacts anemia in Indian children under three ...
Soumya Gupta, Payal Seth, Prabhu Pingali
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Métropoles, 2011 There is growing recognition on the part of Indian policymakers that cities play a crucial role in the national economy, and current State (provincial) policies reflect this shift.
Loraine Kennedy, Marie-Hélène Zérah
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Métropoles, 2010 This article aims at contributing to the understanding of the processes of gentrification occurring in the French cities. Without rejecting an approach through the demand, this article stresses more the creation of a supply of gentrification, an angle ...
Max Rousseau
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‘Arriving At’ Urban Policies: The Topological Spaces of Urban Policy Mobility [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015 AbstractSpatial vocabularies are stretched to their limits by the complexities of policy mobilities. Using the example of city‐wide strategic policymaking in Johannesburg, this essay argues for an enrichment of our vocabularies for appreciating how wider circuits of urban policy shape localized policy outcomes.
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Urban labor markets are characterized by the spatial proximity of households and businesses, which offers firms and workers advantages that lead to more efficient markets, enhanced productivity, and greater economic success.
Randall W. Eberts
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Two cheers for the urban white paper [PDF]
, 2001 In November 2000, the government finally published its Urban White Paper. Our Towns and Cities: The Future appeared over a year after the Rogers’ Urban Task Force report, to which it provided an indirect official response, and no less than 23 years after
Harding, A, Marvin, S, Wilks-Heeg, S
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