Tekijä: | Moomaw, R. Shatter, A. |
Otsikko: | Urbanization and economic development: a bias toward large cities? |
Lehti: | Journal of Urban Economics
1996 : JUL, VOL. 40:1, p. 13-37 |
Asiasana: | URBAN AREAS ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT |
Kieli: | eng |
Tiivistelmä: | The authors find that a nation's urban population percentage increases with GDP per capita; industrialization; and possibly, foreign assistance. It decreases with the importance of agriculture. Industrialization and agricultural importance have the same implications for the concentration of urban population in cities with 100,000 + population as for the urban percentage. Greater export orientation reduces such concentration. Finally, GDP per capita, population, and export orientation reduce primacy. |
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