Determinants of City Growth in Brazil

The authors examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. They consider a model of a city that combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, the authors construct a dataset of 123 Brazilian agglomeratio...

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Main Authors: da Mata, Daniel, Deichmann, Uwe, Henderson, J. Vernon, Lall, Somik V., Wang, Hyoung Gun
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/09/6297437/determinants-city-growth-brazil
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8260