Argentina’s path to economic prosperity is through efficient, sustainable and economically thriving cities. Not only are cities a spatial concentration of people, but also they generate agglomeration economies...
The spatial concentration and growth of the global population in poor and middle-income countries during the twenty-first century presents important opportunities as well as major challenges. Large-scale...
The spatial concentration and growth of the global population in poor and middle-income countries during the twenty-first century presents important opportunities as well as major challenges. Large-scale...
Kazakhstan is experiencing slower economic growth in 2014 due to negative supply- and demand-side effects. The Kazakh authorities are using expansionary fiscal and monetary policies to stimulate domestic...
The trend toward ever greater urbanization continues unabated across the globe. According to the United Nations, by 2025 closes to 5 billion people will live in urban areas. Many cities, especially in...
The trend toward ever greater urbanization continues unabated across the globe. According to the United Nations, by 2025 closes to 5 billion people will live in urban areas. Many cities, especially in...
The first paper of this section (Durand-Laserve) documents how increasing pressures on urban land and the 'commodification' of shelter and settlement has increased 'market evictions' of families holding...
The first paper of this section (Durand-Laserve) documents how increasing pressures on urban land and the 'commodification' of shelter and settlement has increased 'market evictions' of families holding...
Aid and conditionalities are the "carrots and sticks" of the conventional, direct approach to fostering economic development. The economic theory of agency is the most sophisticated treatment of the direct...
This book establishes in detail, the trends in the location patterns of jobs and the factors that determine the location choices of individual firms. Governments of developing countries have often tried...
The rapid pace of urbanization is discussed, with reference to the structure of cities in developing countries, and the pressures of increasing population, rising incomes, and shifting factor prices. The...
The evidence on the size, structure and functions of LDC cities is evaluated, with the findings used for other suggestions on the scope and feasibility of national spatial strategies. Neither the concept...