An analysis was made of data on industrial workers and their wages found in the Sao Paulo, Brazil 1980 social security files. After controlling for various worker attributes and city characteristics, wages...
The emergence of rapidly growing metropolitan centers of unprecedented size in many LDCs has prompted a search for ways to promote the growth of alternative secondary cities. The sources of industrial...
This paper examines the industrial and economic growth of Sao Paulo. Around 1900, Sao Paulo city and its hinterland belonged to a national economic archipelago: the region was one of a series of small...
Bogota and Cali are cities of considerable size populated by households which have fairly high incomes by the standards of the developing world. Residences are more concentrated in particular macro-zones...
Responding to World Bank and member countries' concerns about the size and growth rates of major world metropolises, a research team of urban and regional economists was assembled in 1980. As part of this...
Eight myths surrounding the unregulated development by the informal housing supply market are examined. They are: (i) Unregulated development is out of control. Actually, the District has reduced pockets...