How Should We Measure City Size? : Theory and Evidence Within and Across Rich and Poor Countries /

It is obvious that holding city population constant, differences in cities across the world are enormous. Urban giants in poor countries are not large using measures such as land area, interior space or value of output. These differences are easily reconciled mathematically as population is the prod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jedwab, Remi
Other Authors: Loungani, Prakash, Yezer, Anthony
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/203
Online Access:Full text available on IMF