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CASEreport

City of Walbrzych: Technical Assistance for Mitigating the Social and Economic Challenges of The City

Maciej Borsa, Aleksandra Jadach-Sepiolo and Bert Provan

This report addresses options for city renewal in the medium sized, but shrinking, Polish city of Walbrzych. It provides an overview of the impact of the rapid closure of the mining industry in the mid-1990s, in terms o...Read more...

6 August 2020

SPCC Research Note

Urban Area and Hinterland: Defining Large Cities in England, Scotland and Wales in terms of their constituent neighbourhoods

Alex Fenton

This note describes a method for defining the 'core urban area' and 'hinterland' of large and metropolitan cities in Britain. The definitions are made in terms of small-area ('neighbourhood') geographies used in standard...Read more...

24 June 2013

CASEpaper

Right to the city and critical reflections on property rights activism in China’s urban renewal contexts

Hyun Bang Shin

The rapid transformation of urban socio-spatial landscape in China has resulted in an increasing degree of frustration and discontent among local residents who face threats of demolition and eviction. This has given rise...Read more...

1 December 2011

Development Discussion Paper

The Reversal of Fortune Thesis Reconsidered

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Elliott Green

Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson (2002) have claimed that the world income distribution underwent a 'Reversal of Fortune' from 1500 to the present, whereby formerly rich countries in what is now the developing world became ...Read more...

April 2010

CASEreport

Transforming Cities across Europe: An interim report on problems and progress

Anne Power, Jorg Ploger and Astrid Winkler

CASEpaper

Driven to swim with the tide? Urban redevelopment and community participation in China

Hyun Bang Shin

Over the last decade, there has been growing attention to the issue of neighbourhood governance and community participation in China. The focus has been on the extent to which community involvement in rule-making and dec...Read more...

February 2008

CASEpaper

The Social Protection of Rural Workers in the Construction Industry in Urban China

Bingqin Li and Huamin Peng

The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90% of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrants work in construction. The construction industr...Read more...

November 2006

CASEpaper

Urban Social Exclusion in Transitional China

Bingqin Li

This paper demonstrates that urban social exclusion in China does not only include restricted participation by the ¿underclass¿ in urban life, but also the deprivation of certain political, social and economic rights. In...Read more...

March 2004

CASEpaper

Smart Growth: The Future of the American Metropolis?

Bruce Katz

In the past few years, widespread frustration with sprawling development patterns has precipitated an explosion in innovative thinking and action across the United States. This new thinking ¿ generally labeled as ¿smart ...Read more...

July 2002

Development Economics Paper

Can Labour Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India

Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess

This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate in Indian States has affected the pattern of manufacturing growth in the period 1958-92. We show that pro-worker amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act ...Read more...

February 2002

CASEpaper

Social Exclusion and the Future of Cities

Anne Power and William Julius Wilson

In both Britain and the United States, people have been moving away from the inner cities to suburban developments, often leaving behind concentrations of poverty and decaying neighbourhoods. Anne Power's paper focuses o...Read more...

February 2000

CASEpaper

When Work Disappears: New Implications for Race and Urban Poverty in the Global Economy

William Julius Wilson

This paper discusses the impact of growing joblessness and dwindling work opportunities on inner-city areas in America. The lack of low-skilled manual work in the inner city is linked to poverty, crime, family dissolutio...Read more...

November 1998

Economics of Industry Paper

Local Bus Deregulation and Timetable Instability

Alison Oldale

This paper presents a model of competition between operators on urban local bus routes in which passengers always board the first bus to arrive, and it is costly to revise timetables. The model predicts that timetables a...Read more...

January 1998

Econometrics Paper

Aggregate and Regional Disagggregate Fluctuations (Now published in Empirical Economics (1996), vol.21, no.1, pp.137-159.)

Danny Quah

This paper models fluctuations in regional disaggregates as a nonstationary, dynamically evolving distribution. Doing so enables study of the dynamics of aggregate fluctuations jointly with those of the rich cross-sectio...Read more...

August 1995

Economics of Industry Paper

Revisions of Investment Plans and the Stock Market Rate of Return

Mark Schankerman

This paper explores the sources of uncertainty that cause firms to revise their capital investment plans and the stock market to revise its valuation of those firms. A simple method is developed to decompose the uncertai...Read more...

November 1991