For an increasing number of women globalization has led to migration: more and more women are involved in internal, regional and international migration to find jobs and most of them are employed to do agricultural and domestic work. In this paper an attempt has been made to see the migration of Mexican women to urban informal sector particularly to Monterrey Metropolitan Region. The paper has ...

  There is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy or the share of the largest city in an urban system. In accordance to urban economic theories, there is an inverse-U shape relationship between urban concentration –urban primacy- and economic growth. That is, as economy grows, urban concentration increases, approaches a...

Malaysia has successfully applied economic planning to guide the development of the country from an economy of agriculture and mining to a largely industrialised one. Now, with its sights set on attaining the economic level of a fully developed nation by 2020, the planning system must be made even more efficient and focused. It must ensure that every investment made in the country, contribute t...

Based on a literature review on territorial development and urban and regional growth, this paper argues that, among the many factors that may influence the development of small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs), geography and institutions count. Following an introduction, section 2 shows that geographic factors exert an influence on the economic development of SMSTs, by the importance of connecti...

This paper establishes the existence and efficiency of equilibrium in a local public goods economy with spatial structures by formalizing Hamilton’s (1975 Urban Studies) elaboration of Tiebout’s (1956 JPE) tale. We use a well-known equilibrium concept from Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976, QJE) in a market with asymmetric information, and show that Hamilton’s zoning policy plays an essential role ...

The characteristics of the smart city industry and its effects on the national economy of Korea are investigated using input-output analysis. The definition and industrial classification of a smart city are established using the Delphi technique for experts in various fields, from information and communication technologies (ICT) to governmental policies for urban matters. The results of the ana...

This chapter assesses the impact of HIV/AIDS on the functioning of the economy, its GDP growth and the growth of the main sectors. In most developing economies, even a moderate AIDS-induced decline in the rate of growth leads – in the absence of a robust public policy response to a considerable impoverishment of families and children and to a gradual fall in the long term growth of the economy ...

China’s economic inequalities between rural and urban regions were high but stable during the centrally planned period. Since the inception of reforms in 1978, the disparities have exhibited a marked cyclical pattern: the declines in early years were followed by a period of increases and then by renewed declines. We find that the sharp sectoral divide in the planning episode was a result of ind...