Build It, and They Will Come? Secondary Railways and Population Density in French Algeria
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Algeria;JEL classification:
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- N5 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries
- N7 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services
- N9 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History
- Q17 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agriculture in International Trade
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ARA-2018-05-07 (MENA - Middle East and North Africa)
- NEP-GRO-2018-05-07 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-TRE-2018-05-07 (Transport Economics)
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