Urbanization and economic complexity

Di Clemente, Riccardo, Strano, Emanuele and Batty, Michael (2021) Urbanization and economic complexity. Scientific Reports, 11 (1). p. 3952.

Abstract

Urbanization plays a crucial role in the economic development of every country. The mutual relationship between the urbanization of any country and its economic productive structure is far from being understood. We analyzed the historical evolution of product exports for all countries using the World Trade Web with respect to patterns of urbanization from 1995 to 2010. Using the evolving framework of economic complexity, we reveal that a country's economic development in terms of its production and export of goods, is interwoven with the urbanization process during the early stages of its economic development and growth. Meanwhile in urbanized countries, the reciprocal relation between economic growth and urbanization fades away with respect to its later stages, becoming negligible for countries highly dependent on the export of resources where urbanization is not linked to any structural economic transformation.

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Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83238-5
Item Type:	Article
Disciplines:	Network Science
Depositing User:	Riccardo Di Clemente
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2023 08:31
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2024 12:18
URI:	https://nul.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/329

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