Project of Meine: The contribution of cities to economic development - Dijk, Meine P. van
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This book shows how cities are contributing much more to economic development than the rest of the country. In particular the middle size towns in China and India still have a huge potential to absorb migrants and contribute to economic growth. In China the biggest cities tend to grow slower, probably because environmental, traffic and problems of administration tend to increase. In India these cities still benefit from the cheap labour going there. Both countries would benefit from developing their urban innovative milieu, because future growth will require new technologies, new products and new ways of dealing with urban issues.…mehr

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This book shows how cities are contributing much more to economic development than the rest of the country. In particular the middle size towns in China and India still have a huge potential to absorb migrants and contribute to economic growth. In China the biggest cities tend to grow slower, probably because environmental, traffic and problems of administration tend to increase. In India these cities still benefit from the cheap labour going there. Both countries would benefit from developing their urban innovative milieu, because future growth will require new technologies, new products and new ways of dealing with urban issues.
Autorenporträt
Meine Pieter van Dijk is an economist and professor of Water Services Management at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, professor of entrepreneurship at MSM and professor of Urban management at the Institute of Social Studies and at the Economic Faculty of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (EUR), all in the Netherlands