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Regional planning
Journal Article
Opposition Parties and the Urban Poor in African Democracies

Africa’s urban poor increasingly represent a key constituency for electoral mobilization...

Democracy Democratization Populism
Working Paper
Agglomeration Index: Towards a New Measure of Urban Concentration

A common challenge in analyzing urbanization is the data...

Regional economics Regional planning Urban planning
Working Paper
Evolving City Systems

This 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 planning
Book Chapter
Agglomeration Index: Towards a New Measure of Urban Concentration

From the book: Urbanization and Development

Regional economics Regional planning Urban planning
Book Chapter
Evolving City Systems

From the book: Urbanization and Development

Economic development Regional economics Regional planning
Book Chapter
Development Strategies and Regional Income Disparities in China

From the book: Inequality and Growth in Modern China

Economic development Economic policy Income distribution
Journal Article
Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Growth and Inequality

Part of Journal Special Issue WIDER Symposium on Analyzing the Socioeconomic Consequences of Rising Inequality in China

Central planning Economic development Equality and inequality
Working Paper
Development Strategies and Regional Income Disparities in China

This paper argues that the regional income gap of China is endogenously determined by its long-term economic development strategy...

Economic development Economic policy Income distribution
Working Paper
Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Growth and Inequality

China’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 inequality
Working Paper
Reconstruction from Breakdown in Northeastern India: Building State Capability

The 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 accountability
Working Paper
An Inquiry into Cities and Their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South Africa

South Africa is characterized by significant inequality in spatial economic activity...

Economic development Regional economics Regional planning
Journal Article
An Inquiry into Cities and their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Spatial Issues in Africa

Economic development Regional economics Regional planning
Journal Article
The Political Economy of Malaysian Federalism: Economic Development, Public Policy and Conflict Containment

Part 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 Containment

Conflicts 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)
Book Chapter
Regionalism, Security and Development: A Comparative Perspective

From the book: Comparing Regionalisms

Comparative economics National security Regional planning
Book Chapter
Post-Hegemonic and Post-Socialist Regionalisms: A Comparison of East Asia and Central Europe

From the book: Comparing Regionalisms

International relations Post-communism Regional economics
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