Aspects of the rural-urban transformation of countries

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-42

  Henderson, J Vernon ^a   Wang, Hyoung Gun ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual sector models; Growth; Rural urban migration; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

POPULATION GROWTH; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

EID: 14044269330     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnlecg/lbh052     Document Type: Article

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