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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
What Drives Third World City Growth?
Contains:
FrontmatterContentsFiguresTablesPrefaceChapter 1. The Third World City Growth ProblemChapter 2. Modeling Third World Urbanization and Economic GrowthChapter 3. Fact or Fiction?Chapter 4. How the Model Works: Short-run Impact MultipliersChapter 5. Past Sources of Third World City GrowthChapter Six. Projections to the Year 2000Chapter Seven. Summing UpAppendix A. Mathematical Statement of the Core Economic ModelAppendix B. The Representative LDC in 1960Appendix C. Dynamic ParametersReferencesIndexBackmatter.
Description:
Main description: The book shows that earlier studies exaggerated the effects of rural land scarcity, foreign capital inflows, and population growth on Third World urbanization. More critical were imbalances of productivity advance across sectors and terms of trade between primary products and manufactures.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.