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No. 2014/05 | 16 May 2014 |
What Makes Cities More Productive? Evidence on the Role of Urban Governance from Five OECD Countries
This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries (Germany, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). It highlights the relationship between cities’ governmental fragmentation and... |
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No. 2012/04 | 28 Mar 2012 |
Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
The water debate in relation to poverty alleviation has one dimension that is often sidelined: its relationship with public governance. This report attempts to shed some light on the governance of water policy in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC)... |
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No. 2016/02 | 18 Jan 2016 |
Using Outcome Indicators to Improve Policies
This paper discusses the use of outcome indicators for policy monitoring. In addition to providing general recommendations on their design and implementation, it makes two contributions to the existing literature. First, it shows the importance of... |
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No. 2013/07 | 17 May 2013 |
Urbanisation and Green Growth in China
This working paper assesses national policy and governance mechanisms that can influence green growth in Chinese cities. It applies the OECD conceptual framework for urban green growth to examine the potential challenges and opportunities for... |
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No. 2013/03 | 13 Mar 2013 |
Urban-to-Rural Population Growth Linkages
The objective of this paper is to better understand how the population growth rates of rural regions are affected by their closeness to urban regions and by the economic performance of the latter. By means of a cross-sectional analysis of OECD TL3... |
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No. 2009/01 | 25 Mar 2009 |
Urban Trends and Policy in China
China has become the world’s largest urban nation, with over 600 million urban citizens today. Projections indicate that this level may reach 900 million in 2030. The way this urbanisation process is managed will have important policy implications... |
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No. 2012/01 | 15 Feb 2012 |
Urban Trends and Policies in OECD Countries
This working paper is one in a series of OECD Working Papers on Regional Development of the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, conducted under the responsibility of Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head of the OECD Regional... |
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No. 2015/01 | 03 Apr 2015 |
Urban Spatial Structure in OECD Cities
This paper presents an analysis of urban spatial structure and its trends in the OECD between 2001 and 2011. It does so by using a standardised definition of urban areas in 29 OECD countries as composed of high density cores and their respective... |
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No. 2014/12 | 22 Dec 2014 |
Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia
The development of Asian cities is characterised by rapid and continuous urbanisation on an unprecedented scale, with rapid economic growth led in most places by the manufacturing industry, and rapidly increasing motorisation. The result has been... |
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No. 2013/26 | 16 Dec 2013 |
Urban Climate Adaptation and Leadership
The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This report synthesizes key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban... |
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No. 2019/10 | 20 Nov 2019 |
Trends for smart city strategies in Emerging Asia
Smart cities represent the future of urban development in Emerging Asia as more and more cities and countries resort to smart technologies to build more efficient and liveable urban environments, boost economic growth, foster well-being and... |
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No. 2017/03 | 27 Mar 2017 |
Traffic Safety in Korea
Pedestrians are vulnerable in traffic, with frequently reported injuries and fatalities. These risks are believed to be correlated with socio-economic attributes such as age, income or education levels. For Korea, it is shown that elderly pedestrians... |
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No. 2020/01 | 13 Jan 2020 |
The spatial dimension of productivity
This working paper offers a synthesis of the current knowledge on the determinants of productivity. It carefully reviews both “spatial” (e.g. agglomerations, infrastructure, geography) and “aspatial” (e.g. human capital, labour regulations,... |
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No. 2018/01 | 14 Mar 2018 |
The integration of migrants in OECD regions
This paper provides an assessment of the presence of migrants, their characteristics and integration outcomes across OECD regions, based on a new OECD database on immigrant integration at the regional level. It reveals the wide diversity of the... |
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No. 2017/01 | 17 Mar 2017 |
The impact of road infrastructure investment on incumbent firms in Korea
This paper develops an indicator that combines the area that residents can reach within a certain time of travel with population density to create a proxy for “accessibility”, i.e. access to employment and consumption opportunities. Using a large... |
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No. 2020/06 | 19 Oct 2020 |
The geography of Swedish SMEs’ investments
This paper advances our knowledge of the spatial determinants of productivity by empirically demonstrating one such mechanism – clear differences along the urban-rural continuum in the sensitivity of SMEs’ investments to own cash flow. Whereas the... |
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No. 2013/21 | 11 Dec 2013 |
The case of Oresund (Denmark-Sweden) – Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders
The Oresund is the most well-known example of European cross-border collaboration, building on the metropolitan area around Copenhagen and, across the sound, southern Sweden with the cities of Malmö, Lund and Helsingborg. Cross-border integration... |
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No. 2013/09 | 27 May 2013 |
The Role of Incentives in Co-operation Failures
There are many situations where the best outcome is reached through co-operation and co-ordination of agents’ actions. Although this is the best collective outcome, economic agents may fail to implement such co-operative strategy. The reason for this... |
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No. 2018/04 | 13 Dec 2018 |
The Rise of Megaregions
The concept of megaregions is increasingly put forward among academics and policy makers as a new scale of economic co-ordination and social organisation. A megaregion is most commonly understood as an economic unit that comprises an agglomeration of... |
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No. 2013/24 | 03 Dec 2013 |
The Port and its Environment
In times of increasing environmental awareness, the port-city relationship has gained a new meaning since ports have been seen as the origin of both negative and positive externalities affecting the public wellbeing. While the former are the result... |
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What Makes Cities More Productive? Evidence on the Role of Urban Governance from Five OECD Countries
Rudiger Ahrend, Emily Farchy, Ioannis Kaplanis and Alexander C. Lembcke
16 May 2014
This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries (Germany, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). It highlights the relationship between cities’ governmental fragmentation and...
Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Aziza Akhmouch
28 Mar 2012
The water debate in relation to poverty alleviation has one dimension that is often sidelined: its relationship with public governance. This report attempts to shed some light on the governance of water policy in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC)...
Using Outcome Indicators to Improve Policies
Abel Schumann
18 Jan 2016
This paper discusses the use of outcome indicators for policy monitoring. In addition to providing general recommendations on their design and implementation, it makes two contributions to the existing literature. First, it shows the importance of...
Urbanisation and Green Growth in China
OECD
17 May 2013
This working paper assesses national policy and governance mechanisms that can influence green growth in Chinese cities. It applies the OECD conceptual framework for urban green growth to examine the potential challenges and opportunities for...
Urban-to-Rural Population Growth Linkages
Paolo Veneri and Vicente Ruiz
13 Mar 2013
The objective of this paper is to better understand how the population growth rates of rural regions are affected by their closeness to urban regions and by the economic performance of the latter. By means of a cross-sectional analysis of OECD TL3...
Urban Trends and Policy in China
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Edward Leeman and Zhang Rufei
25 Mar 2009
China has become the world’s largest urban nation, with over 600 million urban citizens today. Projections indicate that this level may reach 900 million in 2030. The way this urbanisation process is managed will have important policy implications...
Urban Trends and Policies in OECD Countries
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui and Javier Sanchez-Reaza
15 Feb 2012
This working paper is one in a series of OECD Working Papers on Regional Development of the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, conducted under the responsibility of Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head of the OECD Regional...
Urban Spatial Structure in OECD Cities
Paolo Veneri
03 Apr 2015
This paper presents an analysis of urban spatial structure and its trends in the OECD between 2001 and 2011. It does so by using a standardised definition of urban areas in 29 OECD countries as composed of high density cores and their respective...
Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia
Tadashi Matsumoto and Loïc Daudey
22 Dec 2014
The development of Asian cities is characterised by rapid and continuous urbanisation on an unprecedented scale, with rapid economic growth led in most places by the manufacturing industry, and rapidly increasing motorisation. The result has been...
Urban Climate Adaptation and Leadership
JoAnn Carmin, David Dodman and Eric Chu
16 Dec 2013
The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This report synthesizes key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban...
Trends for smart city strategies in Emerging Asia
Tadashi Matsumoto, Jonathan Crook and Kensuke Tanaka
20 Nov 2019
Smart cities represent the future of urban development in Emerging Asia as more and more cities and countries resort to smart technologies to build more efficient and liveable urban environments, boost economic growth, foster well-being and...
Traffic Safety in Korea
Martin W. Adler and Rudiger Ahrend
27 Mar 2017
Pedestrians are vulnerable in traffic, with frequently reported injuries and fatalities. These risks are believed to be correlated with socio-economic attributes such as age, income or education levels. For Korea, it is shown that elderly pedestrians...
The spatial dimension of productivity
Alexandra Tsvetkova, Rudiger Ahrend, Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Alexander C. Lembcke, Polina Knutsson, Dylan Jong and Nikolaos Terzidis
13 Jan 2020
This working paper offers a synthesis of the current knowledge on the determinants of productivity. It carefully reviews both “spatial” (e.g. agglomerations, infrastructure, geography) and “aspatial” (e.g. human capital, labour regulations,...
The integration of migrants in OECD regions
Marcos Diaz Ramirez, Thomas Liebig, Cécile Thoreau and Paolo Veneri
14 Mar 2018
This paper provides an assessment of the presence of migrants, their characteristics and integration outcomes across OECD regions, based on a new OECD database on immigrant integration at the regional level. It reveals the wide diversity of the...
The impact of road infrastructure investment on incumbent firms in Korea
Alexander C. Lembcke and Carlo Menon
17 Mar 2017
This paper develops an indicator that combines the area that residents can reach within a certain time of travel with population density to create a proxy for “accessibility”, i.e. access to employment and consumption opportunities. Using a large...
The geography of Swedish SMEs’ investments
Martin Andersson, Johan E. Eklund and Alexandra Tsvetkova
19 Oct 2020
This paper advances our knowledge of the spatial determinants of productivity by empirically demonstrating one such mechanism – clear differences along the urban-rural continuum in the sensitivity of SMEs’ investments to own cash flow. Whereas the...
The case of Oresund (Denmark-Sweden) – Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders
Claire Nauwelaers, Karen Maguire and Giulia Ajmone Marsan
11 Dec 2013
The Oresund is the most well-known example of European cross-border collaboration, building on the metropolitan area around Copenhagen and, across the sound, southern Sweden with the cities of Malmö, Lund and Helsingborg. Cross-border integration...
The Role of Incentives in Co-operation Failures
David Bartolini
27 May 2013
There are many situations where the best outcome is reached through co-operation and co-ordination of agents’ actions. Although this is the best collective outcome, economic agents may fail to implement such co-operative strategy. The reason for this...
The Rise of Megaregions
Daniela Glocker
13 Dec 2018
The concept of megaregions is increasingly put forward among academics and policy makers as a new scale of economic co-ordination and social organisation. A megaregion is most commonly understood as an economic unit that comprises an agglomeration of...
The Port and its Environment
Salvador del Saz-Salazar, Leandro García-Menéndez and Olaf Merk
03 Dec 2013
In times of increasing environmental awareness, the port-city relationship has gained a new meaning since ports have been seen as the origin of both negative and positive externalities affecting the public wellbeing. While the former are the result...