Urbanization, urban concentration and economic growth in developing countries
(2003)
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- We investigate how urban concentration and urbanization affect economic growth in developing countries. Using semi-parametric estimation techniques on a cross-country panel of 39 countries for the years 1960-1990 we discover a U-shaped relationship for urban concentration. This suggests the existence of an urban-concentration trap where marginal increases in urban concentration would reduce growth for about a third of our sample. Furthermore, there appears to be no systematic relationship between urbanization and economic growth.
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Bertinelli, L., & Strobl, E. (2003). Urbanization, urban concentration and economic growth in developing countries (ECON Discussion Papers 2003/80). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/34271