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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Autor principal: Jedwab, Remi
Outros Autores: Loungani, Prakash, Yezer, Anthony
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/203
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF