Growth and Change

Abstract The labor movement from rural areas and the remittance flow from migrants is a common household livelihood strategy in rural Bangladesh. While migration can offer economic benefits through remittances, it can be a source of hardship for migrants and their families due to societal culture. This study examines the differences in farm productivity and technical efficiency between female and male labor migrants by focusing on female and male laborers who have lived away from their homes for 6 months or more within the country and its reflection on farm production. Using data on 2271 rice plots from Bangladesh Integrated Households Survey in 2018, we estimate plot‐level stochastic meta‐frontier approach for households with female‐labor migrants and male‐labor migrants separately emphasizing technological difference and heteroskedastic technical efficiency. The empirical result shows that the female‐labor migrants' farms have 10.3% lower production frontier (maximum frontier yield) and 6.1% higher technical efficiency than male migrants' farms, indicating that they have 4.2% lower productivity. Lower production frontier reflects lower management ability and less attention to farm practice. Moreover, the study reveals that female‐labor migrants' farms are closer to the meta‐frontier, suggesting smaller technology gaps. However, some farmers failed to achieve the highest possible output in relation to the meta‐frontier, indicating that farmers can boost their production by adopting and disseminating new rice production technology.

Md Nazirul Islam Sarker

Md Abdus Salam

R. B. Radin Firdaus

Do female labor‐migrated households have lower productivity? Empirical evidence from rural rice farms in Bangladesh

Abstract While evidence of polycentric urban form is extensive, questions remain regarding the value of agglomeration economies in an information economy, and hence whether polycentricity will persist over time. This paper examines employment spatial structure in four U.S. metropolitan areas between 1990 and 2009. We describe the spatial distribution of employment among centers and non‐center locations across time, examine the persistence of center boundaries, and test for monocentric and polycentric form via density gradient estimations. Results show that the four areas are all polycentric but of different degree. Despite some small fluctuations, metropolitan spatial structure is persistent even in the face of economic shocks in the 2000s: employment centers have not lost their importance and influence in the metro‐wide employment distribution over time.

Genevieve Giuliano

Yuting Hou

Sanggyun Kang

Eun Jin Shin

Polycentricity and the evolution of metropolitan spatial structure

Abstract The Copperbelt region in Zambia experienced significant economic destabilization after the 1970s which led to massive job losses in the mining and manufacturing sectors, forcing the local population into a range of informal sector activities and food self‐provisioning. Resilience thinking and the concepts of adaptation and adaptability in particular provide a lense through which to understand how the mining industry was re‐established, albeit in a radical altered form and how local individuals and households have had to cope through creative local responses. The practice of urban agriculture serves as a case‐study of how, in the absence of formal sector employment opportunities, households have had to strengthen their food security through their own actions.

Etienne Nel

Jessie Smart

Tony Binns

Resilience to Economic Shocks: Reflections from Zambia's Copperbelt

ABSTRACT This study empirically investigates the causal relationship between resource industry dependence and urban resilience from three perspectives: ecological, economic, and social, contributing to the resource curse theory and the sustainable development of resource‐dependent cities. We use the entropy method to establish an urban resilience index system to measure the resilience of 269 Chinese cities from 2000 to 2019, and construct a two‐way fixed‐effects model to test the impact of resource industry dependence on urban resilience. The results show that resource industry dependence impairs urban resilience, and this finding remains robust to the estimation using an instrumental variable approach. Moreover, mechanism tests show that resource industry dependence undermines urban resilience by inhibiting industrial structural upgrading and hindering green technological innovation. We further categorize urban resilience into ecological resilience, economic resilience, and social resilience, and find that resource industry dependence has a more significant negative impact on urban ecological resilience and social resilience than on economic resilience. Our investigations suggest that cities should develop strategies based on their unique endowments to reduce resource dependence, improve urban resilience by strengthening industrial systems and promoting innovation, and achieve sustainable economic development.

Qingxi Wang

Yueji Xin

Zhihua Tian

An Hu

Ye Liu

Does Resource Industry Dependence Undermine Urban Resilience? Evidence From China

资源产业依赖是否会削弱城市韧性？来自中国的证据

ABSTRACT China's economic growth target (EGT) embodies the typical characteristics of extensive development model. Based on the panel data of Chinese cities from 2004 to 2019, this paper examines the impact of EGT on pollution emissions. The results show that China's EGT has significantly increased environmental pollution. Especially before 2013, in order to speed up economic growth and cope with the pressure of the financial crisis, various regions tend to set higher EGT, leading to the aggravation of environmental pollution. After 2013, the promoting effect of EGT on environmental pollution is significantly weakened. Urban heterogeneity analysis shows that the impact of EGT on environmental pollution is different in different cities. The promotion effect of the EGT on environmental pollution is more evident in the western, northeastern, non‐administrative center and resource‐based cities. The industrial structure, technical intensity of industry and effective allocation of production factors are important influencing channels for EGT to affect environmental pollution. Therefore, properly handling the contradiction between economic growth pressure and environmental governance is the key to China's sustainable economic development.

Yicheng Zhou

Zihan Zhang

Boqiang Lin

The Impact of Economic Growth Targets on Environmental Pollution: A Study From Chinese Cities

经济增长目标对环境污染的影响：基于中国城市的研究

Amanda Weinstein

Rethinking Gender Norms: A Review of Richard Reeve’s Book, Of Boys and Men. By RichardReeves, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2022. $28.99 (hardcover), $19.95 (paperback), $16.95 (audiobook). ISBN: 9780815740667

重新思考性别规范：理查德·里夫斯著作《男孩与男人》评述。理查德·里夫斯，华盛顿特区：布鲁金斯学会出版社，2022年。$28.99（精装本），$19.95（平装本），$16.95（有声书）。ISBN: 9780815740667

ABSTRACT Equitable development is one of the conditions for achieving a stable and just society. This assertion is corroborated by the numerous global and regional efforts to minimize inequality and ensure balanced development. By this recognition, decentralization, a system of governance where power cascades from centralized, remote structures to accessible local bodies, has long been floated as a tool for achieving development equity. In Ghana, decentralized units are unequally endowed, resulting in differing capacities for resource mobilization and service delivery. This study sought to accomplish two fundamental objectives, first to understand the nature of socioeconomic development performance dynamics among Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and whether spatial spillovers exist and mediate these dynamics. Second was to investigate whether socioeconomic development performance is converging over time. Using performance on the District League Table (DLT) as a proxy for socioeconomic development, global and local Moran's I analysis revealed statistically significant clustering of development performance, hinting at the presence of spatial spillovers. Leveraging spatially explicit Markov chains, findings indicated that most MMDAs were more likely to stay in their performance classes than transition to a different cohort, with this probability being the highest in the upper and lower classes. Nonetheless, MMDAs located within high performing neighborhoods were more likely to improve in their performance than their counterparts located in low performing neighborhoods. Further analysis also revealed a high degree of cohesion, where MMDAs' development performance tend to assume the direction of their neighborhoods. In the second objective, decomposed Theil index analysis revealed processes of convergence overall and within decomposed groups while between groups convergence appeared to have saturated. The study advocates for collective as opposed to piecemeal strategies for achieving equitable development.

Zurikanen Iddrisu

Jean‐Claude Thill

Socio‐Economic Development Performance and Convergence Among Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies in Ghana

加纳大都会、市政和区议会的社会经济发展绩效与趋同性

ABSTRACT The present study employs fixed‐effect models to examine the complex and dynamic relationship between economic growth and environmental awareness. The empirical analysis reveals a discernible negative correlation between economic growth and environmental awareness, indicating a potential trade‐off between economic development and environmental sustainability. This finding aligns with the theoretical underpinnings of the environmental Kuznets curve. Moreover, consistent patterns in the impact of economic growth on environmental awareness are identified across different platforms. Additionally, regional heterogeneity is observed in the influence of economic growth on environmental awareness. These findings underscore the necessity for nuanced policymaking tailored to the specific regional contexts and stages of economic development. This study advocates for strategies that strike a balance between fostering economic growth and promoting environmental awareness, thereby contributing to the scholarly discourse on sustainable economic development.

Keyi Duan

Mingyao Cao

Nurhafiza Abdul Kader Malim

Yan Song

Between Prosperity and Preservation: An Empirical Analysis of the Interaction Between Economic Development and Environmental Awareness

繁荣与保护之间：经济发展与环境意识互动的实证分析

短名	Growth. Change.
Journal Impact	2.71
国际分区	REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING(Q2)
期刊索引	SCI Q2中科院 3 区

ISSN	0017-4815, 1468-2257
h-index	64
国内分区	经济学(3区)经济学发展研究(3区)经济学区域与城市规划(4区)

涉及主题	经济地理业务政治学法学社会学经济地理学历史计算机科学数学考古生物工程类经济增长
出版信息	出版商: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd，出版周期: ，期刊类型: journal，开源期刊: 否
基本数据	创刊年份: 1970，原创研究文献占比: 100.00%，自引率:6.90%， Gold OA占比: 12.00%

Growth and Change

期刊引文格式

有 1 位以上作者的期刊

有 2 位作者的期刊

有 3 位作者的期刊

有 5 位以上作者的期刊

书籍引用格式

学位论文引用格式

网页引用格式

专利引用格式

手工熬夜修改参考文献？研飞自动匹配期刊，一键轻松成稿，支持 Word/WPS

投稿经验分享

Do female labor‐migrated households have lower productivity? Empirical evidence from rural rice farms in Bangladesh

Polycentricity and the evolution of metropolitan spatial structure

Resilience to Economic Shocks: Reflections from Zambia's Copperbelt

Does Resource Industry Dependence Undermine Urban Resilience? Evidence From China

The Impact of Economic Growth Targets on Environmental Pollution: A Study From Chinese Cities

The Impact of Economic Growth Targets on Environmental Pollution: A Study From Chinese Cities

Does Resource Industry Dependence Undermine Urban Resilience? Evidence From China

Rethinking Gender Norms: A Review of Richard Reeve’s Book, Of Boys and Men. By RichardReeves, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2022. $28.99 (hardcover), $19.95 (paperback), $16.95 (audiobook). ISBN: 9780815740667

Socio‐Economic Development Performance and Convergence Among Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies in Ghana

Between Prosperity and Preservation: An Empirical Analysis of the Interaction Between Economic Development and Environmental Awareness