Agglomeration costs limit sustainable innovation in cities in developing economies
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Keywords
innovation; nightlights; urban agglomeration; sustainable cities; developing countries; World Bank Enterprise Surveys;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
- Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2024-12-02 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-GEO-2024-12-02 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-SBM-2024-12-02 (Small Business Management)
- NEP-URE-2024-12-02 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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