کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
971825 932407 2012 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Economic growth, size of the agricultural sector, and urbanization in Africa
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Economic growth, size of the agricultural sector, and urbanization in Africa
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper uses variations in international commodity prices and rainfall to construct instrumental variables estimates of the within-country effect that changes in the size of the agricultural sector and GDP per capita growth have on the urbanization rate. For a panel of 41 African countries during the period 1960–2007, the paper’s three main findings are that: (i) decreases in the share of agricultural value added lead to a significant increase in the urbanization rate; (ii) conditional on changes in the share of agricultural value added GDP per capita growth does not significantly affect the urbanization rate; (iii) increases in the urbanization rate had a significant negative average effect on GDP per capita growth.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics - Volume 71, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 26–36
نویسندگان
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