Gold Mining and Proto-Urbanization : Recent Evidence from Ghana
Central place theory predicts that agglomeration can arise from external shocks. We investigate whether gold mining is a catalyst for early stages of urbanization in rural Ghana. We call this phenomenon proto-urbanization. Using cross-sectional data, we find that locations with gold mines exhibit m...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24278 |