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On the concentration of urbanization and economic efficiency (English)

The proposition that the economic return for investment in large metropolitan areas is less than in smaller urban centers is examined. Per capita costs of government expenditure for public services is least for cities having a population under several million. However, higher expenditures in large cities are attributable more to the greater willingness of residents of large cities to pay for public services than to diseconomies of a large scale. An...
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Mera,Koichi.

On the concentration of urbanization and economic efficiency (English). Staff working paper ; no. SWP 74 Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/224921468173346106

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