A Century of Research on Rural Development and Regional Issues

Irwin, Elena G.; Isserman, Andrew M.; Kilkenny, Maureen; Partridge, Mark D.

doi:10.1093/ajae/aaq008

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“…Massive inflows of capital and investment are generating economic growth, which, in turn, triggers the conversion of rural land into residential, commercial, and industrial use (Irwin, Isserman, Kilkenny, & Partridge, 2010). With poor and ineffective regulation, the direct hinterland of Bucharest thus rapidly loses its available land reserves.…”

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Economic growth and urban metamorphosis: A quarter century of transformations within the metropolitan area of Bucharest

Toşa

Mitrea

Sato

et al. 2018

JTLU

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This paper concentrates explicitly on examining the structural and functional transformations occurring within the metropolitan area of Bucharest, resulting from sustained economic growth during the past quarter century, by conducting a time analysis, spanning the entire period since the fall of the communist regime in late 1989.Cities in developed countries of Western Europe and Asia experienced rapid economic growth during the second half of the 20th century and exhibited novel patterns of evolution in terms of urban form and associated functional characteristics. Lately, these patterns have become manifest in Bucharest as well. However, transformations in human, social, residential, and transportation supply capital are difficult to observe directly. Hence, our methodology concentrates on studying interactions between several proxies connected to economic development within the metropolitan area of Bucharest. This paper should be read as an exploratory study that buttresses the assumption that improved economic well-being, when accompanied by the transition between a centrally planned economy to a market economy, increases motorization rates, while at the same time triggering a sharp decline in the use of public transport and contributing to aggressive urban sprawl processes. Moreover, hopefully it will guide future research dedicated to forecasting urban expansion paths and their determinants. Hopefully, it also informs policy design intended to promote sustainable urban mobility and accessibility.

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Economic growth and urban metamorphosis: A quarter century of transformations within the metropolitan area of Bucharest

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Sato

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“…As the previous section discussed, many of today's locations with natural resource extraction are rural. Irwin, et al (2010) define rural development as "more varied nonfarm rural industry and land uses, new rural occupations, and higher income per capita." Therefore, for state fiscal policy to enhance economic development, the loss of natural resource stock must be compensated by an increase in the stock of physical, social, or human capital; otherwise, the quality of life is diminished.…”

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Unconventional Gas and Oil Development in the United States: Economic Experience and Policy Issues

Kelsey

Partridge

White

2016

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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This paper examines the economic experience of past energy booms and of current unconventional shale gas and oil development. It focuses on key economic characteristics of gas and oil development, such as its employment potential, the geography of such development, its boom-bust nature, and the economic experience with shale oil and gas development. This background is used to discuss important economic policy issues arising with unconventional oil and gas development, such as taxation, governmental use of those revenues, preemption, and equity in the distribution of costs and benefits. The paper concludes with economic policy recommendations for states and communities affected by such development.

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“…Indeed, as noted by Irwin et al (2010), the Industrial Revolution gave rise to a number of technological innovations in production and transportation that resulted in production moving out of homes and into large factories. In addition, labor-saving technologies in agriculture and scale economies in manufacturing led to the movement of large numbers of people and to the emergence of industrial cities.…”

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“…We know from the work of Irwin et al (2010) and others that rural regions in OECD countries now produce a whole variety of goods. However, it is not possible to obtain analytic results with a dynamic model in which there are a large number of goods.…”

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New Technological Knowledge, Rural and Urban Agriculture, and Steady State Economic Growth

Batabyal

Kourtit²,

Nijkamp

2018

Netw Spat Econ

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We analyze the growth effects over space arising from the adoption of new agricultural technology in a rural-urban setting. We use a dynamic model to study the impacts of technology and learning on the steady state growth rates of rural and urban regions that produce agricultural goods. New applications of agricultural technologies are tested and adopted in the rural region and they are gradually learned by the urban region. Our analysis leads to four results. First, we determine the steady state growth rate of agricultural output per worker in the rural region.Second, we define an urban to rural region agricultural technology knowledge ratio, analyze its stability properties, and then use this ratio to compute the steady state growth rate of agricultural output per worker in the urban region. Third, for specific parameter values, we study the ratio of agricultural output per worker in the urban to the rural region when both regions have converged to their balanced growth paths. Finally, we discuss the policy implications of our analysis.

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A Century of Research on Rural Development and Regional Issues

Cited by 158 publications

References 199 publications

Economic growth and urban metamorphosis: A quarter century of transformations within the metropolitan area of Bucharest

Economic growth and urban metamorphosis: A quarter century of transformations within the metropolitan area of Bucharest

Unconventional Gas and Oil Development in the United States: Economic Experience and Policy Issues

New Technological Knowledge, Rural and Urban Agriculture, and Steady State Economic Growth

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