The Mortality Transition, Malthusian Dynamics, and the Rise of Poor Mega-Cities
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Keywords
Urban Malthusianism; Demographic Regime; Megacities; Congestion; Growth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure
- N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
- N90 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - General, International, or Comparative
- R10 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EVO-2015-05-09 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-GRO-2015-05-09 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2015-05-09 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-URE-2015-05-09 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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