Agrarian Structures, Urbanization, and Inequality

Oyvat, Cem

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.01.019

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“…Of the other explanatory variables in Table 6; urbanization has a positive and significant impact on income distribution. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that excessive urbanization leads to worsen the workers health and increase unemployment (Oyvat, 2016;Harris-Todaro (1970). The situation leads to reduce the productivity and income of the poor.…”

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Does public debt stifle economic growth and increase income inequality in Belt & Road countries? The Role of Corruption

2019

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This study seeks to investigate the role of corruption in the relationship between public debt and economic growth in Belt & Road countries during 1996-2017 by applying the generalized method of moment (GMM). Using grouped and ungrouped samples; the results reveal that public debt plays a significant and negative role in economic growth. Corruption also plays a significant and negative role in economic growth. The interaction terms of public debt and corruption play a significant and negative role in economic growth. Moreover; several robustness checks like fixed and random effect models also confirm the results of the GMM approach. The inclusion of more control variables also confirms the baseline estimation. The impact of Belt & Road initiative on economic growth is significantly positive. Several policy recommendations can be drawn from this study. The reduction of the adverse effect of public debt and improvement in economic growth can be brought by applying measures that curb corruption and enhance economic collaboration with other economies.

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Does public debt stifle economic growth and increase income inequality in Belt & Road countries? The Role of Corruption

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“…For instance, findings reported by K. Sekkat (2017) indicate that the poverty reduction effects of urbanisation are conditional upon the size of cities, with big or very big urban concentrations having no effect on levels of poverty. Results by C. Oyvat (2016) indicate that over-urbanisation increases income inequality.…”

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The Nexus Between Urbanisation and Human Empowerment: Income Group Based Findings of Bidirectional Causality

Kollias

2019

Urban Development Issues

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The economic and social drivers of democratisation and the emergence and establishment of democratic institutions are longstanding themes of academic discourse. Within this broad body of literature, it has been argued that the process of urbanisation is also conducive to the emergence and consolidation of democracy through a number of different channels. Cities offer better access to education and facilitate organised public action and the demand for more democratic rule and respect of human rights. The nexus between urbanisation and human rights is the theme that is taken up in the present paper. Using a sample of 123 countries for the period 1981–2011, the paper examines empirically the association between urbanisation and human empowerment using the Cingranelli-Richards Index. In broad terms, the findings reported herein do not point to a strong nexus across all income groups. Nevertheless, there is evidence suggesting the presence of such a statistically significant positive association in specific cases.

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“…Unlike the previous empirical work, this is the first study that examines land distribution's impact on the migration behavior and destination together with the influence of per capita land in a rural area. Higher land inequality in a region suppresses agricultural income of rural median households and pushes them to other areas (Harris, 1978;De Janvry, 1981;Galeano, 2009;Oyvat;. Using the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey conducted for 2005/06 (KIHBS 05/06) and the Rural Labor Force Survey of 1988 (RLFS 88), we find that the rural dwellers who were born in areas with higher land inequality, lower per capita land and lower per capita rural income are more likely to migrate.…”

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“…Using the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey conducted for 2005/06 (KIHBS 05/06) and the Rural Labor Force Survey of 1988 (RLFS 88), we find that the rural dwellers who were born in areas with higher land inequality, lower per capita land and lower per capita rural income are more likely to migrate. In effect transmitting, the poverty and inequality in a village to other areas via the migration process (Oyvat, 2016).…”

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Migration in Kenya: beyond Harris-Todaro

Oyvat

Gĩthĩnji

2019

International Review of Applied Economics

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This paper examines the impact of agrarian structures on the migration behavior and destination of rural household heads and individuals in Kenya. To explore the complexity of migration we extend the standard Harris-Todaro framework to account for land inequality and size as well as type of destination. Using logistic regressions, we show that Kenyan household heads born in districts with higher land inequality, smaller per capita land and lower per capita rural income are more likely to migrate. We show that for individuals whose incomes are squeezed by larger land inequality, migration from villages to suburban Nairobi, smaller cities, and villages in different districts could be a preferable strategy to migrating to Metro Nairobi. The impact of land inequality is more significant for male than female migration. Moreover, the level of education, age, marital status, gender, religion and distance to Nairobi play a role in migration behavior. Year: 2017No: GPERC 47 GREENWICH POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH CENTRE (GPERC)

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Agrarian Structures, Urbanization, and Inequality

Cited by 50 publications

References 75 publications

Does public debt stifle economic growth and increase income inequality in Belt & Road countries? The Role of Corruption

Does public debt stifle economic growth and increase income inequality in Belt & Road countries? The Role of Corruption

The Nexus Between Urbanisation and Human Empowerment: Income Group Based Findings of Bidirectional Causality

Migration in Kenya: beyond Harris-Todaro

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