Understanding China’s Urban Pollution Dynamics
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چکیده
I 1960, 33.0 percent of the world’s population lived in cities. In 2010, this share grew to 50.5 percent and will continue to rise as urbanization in the developing world takes place. Urbanization offers market opportunities that rural areas cannot match. The potential to learn, specialize and trade in cities raises per capita income (Glaeser 1998, 1999, 2011). Over the last thirty years, one quarter of the rural people who entered cities worldwide were in China.1 In China’s cities, tens
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