This article wants to propose this theory that Farm Corporations are agropolitan development models in Iran. As over-concentrating investments to the urban areas did not lead to a trickledown effect to the rural areas. To the extreme, there are ideas to minimize linkages with the urban economy, and to make the rural areas pursue self-sufficiency by maximizing its potentials. However, against th...

Large di erences in hourly compensation exist between the natives (urban hukou holders) and rural to urban migrants of the Chinese cities, a third of which cannot be explained by any variation in observable characteristics. This paper attempts to explain the di erences using a Tiebout-esque political economy model of migration in which rents are appropriated from the migrants by the rent-seekin...

Abstract The Amazon hosts a large biological and cultural diversity with deeply established knowledge of natural resource management. Nevertheless, many parts the are increasingly urban, lacking basic urban services, such as waste In this context, design new development pathways based on principles circular economy is promising alternative to align biodiversity conservation changes. Here, an an...

Looking at state finance in the Ottoman Empire from a Dutch perspective shows remarkable differences between the two systems. This article suggests that these differences were related to the fact that, in contrast to those in the Ottoman Empire, fiscal systems in western Europe, and especially in the Netherlands, developed within a context of economy-driven rather than state-driven trajectories...

The research proposes to model the way households and their assets move back and forth between the informal rural economy and the formal economy, particularly financial equity, entrepreneurs and workers. Several hypotheses are tested to establish understanding about the functions of the informal economy in the co-evolution of rural and urban economies. This work should lead to strategic options...