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What Drives Third World City Growth? / Nancy Burley, Allen C. Kelley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 638Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1984Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (294 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691612409
  • 9781400855636
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Third World City Growth Problem -- Chapter 2. Modeling Third World Urbanization and Economic Growth -- Chapter 3. Fact or Fiction? -- Chapter 4. How the Model Works: Short-run Impact Multipliers -- Chapter 5. Past Sources of Third World City Growth -- Chapter Six. Projections to the Year 2000 -- Chapter Seven. Summing Up -- Appendix A. Mathematical Statement of the Core Economic Model -- Appendix B. The Representative LDC in 1960 -- Appendix C. Dynamic Parameters -- References -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: The book shows that earlier studies exaggerated the effects of rural land scarcity, foreign capital inflows, and population growth on Third World urbanization. More critical were imbalances of productivity advance across sectors and terms of trade between primary products and manufactures.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Third World City Growth Problem -- Chapter 2. Modeling Third World Urbanization and Economic Growth -- Chapter 3. Fact or Fiction? -- Chapter 4. How the Model Works: Short-run Impact Multipliers -- Chapter 5. Past Sources of Third World City Growth -- Chapter Six. Projections to the Year 2000 -- Chapter Seven. Summing Up -- Appendix A. Mathematical Statement of the Core Economic Model -- Appendix B. The Representative LDC in 1960 -- Appendix C. Dynamic Parameters -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

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The book shows that earlier studies exaggerated the effects of rural land scarcity, foreign capital inflows, and population growth on Third World urbanization. More critical were imbalances of productivity advance across sectors and terms of trade between primary products and manufactures.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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