<p>The book shows that earlier studies exaggerated the effects of rural land scarcity, foreign capital inflows, and population growth on Third World urbanization. More critical were imbalances of productivity advance across sectors and terms of trade between primary products and manufactures.</p> <p
What drives Third World city growth? : a dynamic general equilibrium approach
โ Scribed by Kelley, Allen C.; Williamson, Jeffrey G.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 292
- Series
- Princeton legacy library.
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
FrontMatter, pg. iContents, pg. vFigures, pg. ixTables, pg. xiPreface, pg. xvChapter 1. The Third World City Growth Problem, pg. 1Chapter 2. Modeling Third World Urbanization and Economic Growth, pg. 13Chapter 3. Fact or Fiction?, pg. 74Chapter 4. How the Model Works: Short-run Impact Multipliers, pg. 100Chapter 5. Past Sources of Third World City Growth, pg. 125Chapter Six. Projections to the Year 2000, pg. 142Chapter Seven. Summing Up, pg. 178Appendix A. Mathematical Statement of the Core Economic Model, pg. 187Appendix B. The Representative LDC in 1960, pg. 203Appendix C. Dynamic Parameters, pg. 227References, pg. 249*Index, pg. 267
โฆ Subjects
Cities and towns -- Growth -- Mathematical models;Cities and towns -- Developing countries -- Growth -- Mathematical models;Equilibrium (Economics);Developing countries
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