What Drives Third World City Growth? /

What Drives Third World City Growth? / / Nancy Burley, Allen C. Kelley.

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.Originally...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Kelley, Allen C.,
Burley, Nancy,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 638
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. The Third World City Growth Problem
  • Chapter 2. Modeling Third World Urbanization and Economic Growth
  • Chapter 3. Fact or Fiction?
  • Chapter 4. How the Model Works: Short-run Impact Multipliers
  • Chapter 5. Past Sources of Third World City Growth
  • Chapter Six. Projections to the Year 2000
  • Chapter Seven. Summing Up
  • Appendix A. Mathematical Statement of the Core Economic Model
  • Appendix B. The Representative LDC in 1960
  • Appendix C. Dynamic Parameters
  • References
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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