World development report 2009 : reshaping economic geography

By S. Coulibaly, Uwe Deichmann, M. E. Freire, I. Gill, C. Goh, A. Kopp, Somik V. Lall, C. E. Montenegro, Truman G. Packard, B. Larson and 2 more. 2008

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Economic and Social Convergence in Colombia (2015, background): “Nearly everything that matters is converging, World Development 33(1), 1–19.”
Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries (2013, background): “China is a successful story of reduction in absolute poverty (World Bank, 2009; Ravallion and Chen, 2007, 2008; Minoiu and Reddy, 2008).”
The spatial effects of trade openness: a survey (2011, background): “(World Bank, 2008, p. 12) This quote is representative of mainstream economic thinking in so far as it makes two central assertions: that trade liberalisation increases within-country spatial inequality, and that it favours regions with better access to international trade routes.”
The (Evolving) Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction: An Empirical Perspective (2011, background): “12 For more in-depth analysis and suggestions on how agriculture could be advanced in sub-Saharan Africa, see InterAcademy Council (2004) and Awakening Africa’s Sleeping Giant (World Bank 2009a).”
The Economics of Slums in the Developing World (2013, background): “In Sierra Leone, a country whose slums routinely experience cholera 3 The World Bank (2009) argued that urban areas fare consistently better than rural areas worldwide along a variety of health indicators.”
The Rise of a Middle Class in East and Southern Africa: Implications for Food System Transformation (2014, methodology): “…a parameter, both the extensive literature on urban bias in policies, the theory and evidence for economies of agglomeration in urban areas (World Bank 2009), and investigations of the role of migration to urban areas in escape from poverty (Christiaensen et al. 2013) suggest higher income…”
Cities and greenhouse gas emissions: moving forward (2011, background): “World Bank (2008), World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography, The World Bank, Washington DC, 383 pages.”
Poverty reduction during the rural-urban transformation - The role of the missing middle (2013, unknown): “The clustering of a country’s urban population in few localities, known as urban concentration 4 , could for example generate more economic growth and jobs given economies of scale and agglomeration (World Bank, 2009).”