Beyond Urban Bias in Africa: Urbanization in an Era of Structural AdjustmentCurrey, 1994 - Počet stran: 294 This book focuses on whether African development has historically been weighted in favor of the urban areas, and the concern that the benefits - and imperatives - of urban development are being lost in current adjustment approaches. The authors argue that it is necessary to harness the financial and human resources of the city as part of a strategy to ensure greater and more widespread economic development. Beyond Urban Bias includes a detailed examination of the role and development of urban centers in Africa. It also investigates sources of changes in the growth of individual towns and in the structures of urban systems. It devotes attention to the role of rural-to-urban migration and its causes; the authors present theoretical and empirical investigations of neoclassical economic models, non-neoclassical economic models, and demographic cohort models of urbanization and urban wage and employment structures. Beyond Urban Bias also provides a detailed, critical analysis of the relationship between Africa's rapid urbanization and the present economic crisis, as well as an assessment of the impact of structural adjustment programs on Africa's urban future. |
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... measures of urban concentration . The results from this section are mixed ; according to some measures of concentra- tion African city systems are somewhat more primate than city systems of other less - developed countries , while ...
... measures of urban concentration . The results from this section are mixed ; according to some measures of concentra- tion African city systems are somewhat more primate than city systems of other less - developed countries , while ...
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... measures that summarize the characteristics of an urban system in a single descriptive statistic . Four such urban concentration mea- sures are examined in this section : two primacy indices and three measures based on statistical ...
... measures that summarize the characteristics of an urban system in a single descriptive statistic . Four such urban concentration mea- sures are examined in this section : two primacy indices and three measures based on statistical ...
Strana 257
... measures . As Liedholm and Mead ( 1987 : 61 and ff . ) correctly point out , the validity of a partial measure is dependent on there being only one scarce factor of production . In developing countries this is com- monly assumed to be ...
... measures . As Liedholm and Mead ( 1987 : 61 and ff . ) correctly point out , the validity of a partial measure is dependent on there being only one scarce factor of production . In developing countries this is com- monly assumed to be ...
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Urban Centers in African Economies | 23 |
African City Systems and Urban Growth | 53 |
The Role of Migration in African Urbanization | 87 |
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