Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries
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Keywords
Urbanization; DemographicTransition; Migration; Poverty; Slums;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GRO-2014-02-21 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2014-02-21 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MIG-2014-02-21 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2014-02-21 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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