Urbanisation in developing economies: building cities that work
Abstract: This paper reviews recent work on the economics of fast growing developing country cities, with a focus on Africa. It sets out some of the broad facts about African urbanisation and summarises two recent pieces of research work. The first argues that coordination failure can create multiple equilibria and divergent paths of development, some in which cities are internationally competitive and able to create jobs, others in which cities are stuck in a 'nono-tradables trap'. The second is a dynamic model of city growth, calibrated to changing patterns of land-use in Nairobi; the calibration suggests a very high cost of inefficient land use in the context of urban slums
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Region: the journal of ERSA ; 5 (2018) 1 ; 91-100
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Wirtschaft
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10.18335/region.v5i1.245
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019052715270318703150
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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