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Opposition Parties and the Urban Poor in African DemocraciesAfrica’s urban poor increasingly represent a key constituency for electoral mobilization...
Democracy Democratization PopulismWorking Paper
Agglomeration Index: Towards a New Measure of Urban ConcentrationA common challenge in analyzing urbanization is the data...
Regional economics Regional planning Urban planningWorking Paper
Evolving City SystemsThis paper reviews the literature on the forces driving urbanization in developing countries. It presents a model outlining how globalization can lead to the evolution of an urban structure which may approximate Zipf’s law...
Economic development Regional economics Regional planningBook Chapter
Agglomeration Index: Towards a New Measure of Urban ConcentrationFrom the book: Urbanization and Development
Regional economics Regional planning Urban planningBook Chapter
Evolving City SystemsFrom the book: Urbanization and Development
Economic development Regional economics Regional planningBook Chapter
Development Strategies and Regional Income Disparities in ChinaFrom the book: Inequality and Growth in Modern China
Economic development Economic policy Income distributionJournal Article
Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Growth and InequalityPart of Journal Special Issue WIDER Symposium on Analyzing the Socioeconomic Consequences of Rising Inequality in China
Central planning Economic development Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
Development Strategies and Regional Income Disparities in ChinaThis paper argues that the regional income gap of China is endogenously determined by its long-term economic development strategy...
Economic development Economic policy Income distributionWorking Paper
Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Growth and InequalityChina’s current fiscal system is largely decentralized while its governance structure is rather centralized with strong top-down mandates and a homogenous governance structure...
Central planning Economic development Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
Reconstruction from Breakdown in Northeastern India: Building State CapabilityThe northeast region of India remains fraught with severe violence, poor growth and acute frustration among its youth. Success of policies to resolve the region’s crisis has proved less than encouraging...
Conflict management Economic development Government accountabilityWorking Paper
An Inquiry into Cities and Their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South AfricaSouth Africa is characterized by significant inequality in spatial economic activity...
Economic development Regional economics Regional planningJournal Article
An Inquiry into Cities and their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Spatial Issues in Africa
Economic development Regional economics Regional planningJournal Article
The Political Economy of Malaysian Federalism: Economic Development, Public Policy and Conflict ContainmentPart of Journal Special Issue Explaining Violent Conflict
Conflict management Fiscal policy Law and legislation (Natural resources)Working Paper
The Political Economy of Malaysian Federalism: Economic Development, Public Policy and Conflict ContainmentConflicts within the Malaysian federation have been rooted in socio-economic disparities and the struggle for control of natural resource rents, which State Governments previously had exclusive control over, as originally provided for by the federal ...
Conflict management Fiscal policy Law and legislation (Natural resources)