Raising the bar for productive cities in Latin America and the Caribbean /
With more than 70 percent of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is among the most urbanized regions in the world. Yet, although its cities are, on average, more productive than those elsewhere in the world, their productivity lags that of North American and Wester...
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Washington, DC :
World Bank Publications,
2018
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| Series: | World Bank Latin American and Caribbean studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Overview; The Productivity of LAC Cities Is Slightly above Average but below the Global Frontier; What These Findings Might Mean for Policy; Annex OA: Productivity Measures Used in the Book to Assess LAC Cities; Annex OB: The Need for Policy; Notes; References; Part I. Urbanization and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean; Chapter 1. Urbanization, Economic Development, and Structural Transformation; Introduction; The Origins of Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Urbanization in the LAC Region and the Rest of the World: Discrepancies between Consistent and Official Measures Urbanization, Economic Development, and Structural Transformation: How Does the LAC Region's Performance Stack Up?; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 2. The Many Dimensions of Urbanization and the Productivity of Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean; Introduction; Defining a Global Data Set of Urban Areas; Urban Areas in the LAC Region Are More Densely Populated Than Those Elsewhere
- A Significant Share of Latin America and the Caribbean's Urban Population Lives in Large MCAsA Third of LAC Countries Analyzed Suffer from Potentially Excessive Primacy; Implications for National Productivity: Density and MCAs Matter, but Urban Primacy Does Not; International Benchmarking of LAC Urban Areas' Productivity: Better Than Average, but Lagging the Global Frontier; Productivity is Highly Dispersed across LAC Urban Areas; Conclusions; Annex 2A: List of Comparator Countries for Each LAC Country
- Annex 2B: Statistical Tests of Differences in Population, Area, and Population Density between LAC Countries and Their ComparatorsAnnex 2C: List of Multicity Agglomerations in the LAC Region; Annex 2D: Cross-Country Regression of Log(GDP per Capita) on Different Dimensions of Urbanization: Alternative Definition for a Multicity Agglomeration; Notes; References; Part II. The Determinants of City Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean; Chapter 3. The Empirical Determinants of City Productivity; Introduction; Cities Are More Productive Than Rural Areas
- Large Subnational Variations in Productivity, Explained Partly by Sorting Explaining Underlying Variations in Productivity: The Three Theories; What about Firms? Evidence from World Bank Enterprise Surveys; Conclusions; Annex 3A: Results of Regressions on the Determinants of Underlying Productivity Variations Based on the Single-Stage Approach; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Transport Infrastructure and Agglomeration in Cities; Introduction; Transport, Agglomeration, and Productivity: A Brief Review; Transport in Latin America and the Caribbean: History, Current State, and Challenges.
