alireza kazerooni; khatereh alilou; Zana Mozaffari
Abstract
The main goal of every development plan is to achieve economic growth and mass production with considerations for the needs of economy and optimal utilization of resources and capital in the society. Urbanization is one of the most important aspects of the modern society, which embodies significant factors ...
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The main goal of every development plan is to achieve economic growth and mass production with considerations for the needs of economy and optimal utilization of resources and capital in the society. Urbanization is one of the most important aspects of the modern society, which embodies significant factors that can lead to economic growth. Urbanization is the relationship between population, employment, migration, physical construction and human environment, and its development at any time and in any geographical area is influenced by national and international conditions. Today, the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth has been confirmed by theories and empirical evidence. This study examines the contemporaneous effects of urbanization and foreign direct investment on economic growth in Iranian provinces over period 2006-2015 by using Generalized Moment Method (GMM). Our results show that foreign direct investment, government size, capital stock and human capital index have a positive impact on economic growth in Iranian provinces. However, the effect of urbanization intensity on economic growth has been found to be negative.
Alireza Shakibaei; Zahra Kamal-e-Dini; Fatemeh Taleghani; Mohammadreza Ahmadi-Nejad
Volume 15, Issue 57 , July 2015, , Pages 109-140
Abstract
Regional inequalities have always been one of the concerns of the government planners and they have attempted to recognize these inequalities and devise particular policies to curb them. The motivation to work on this domain has led to the development of different indices and techniques to measure regional ...
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Regional inequalities have always been one of the concerns of the government planners and they have attempted to recognize these inequalities and devise particular policies to curb them. The motivation to work on this domain has led to the development of different indices and techniques to measure regional inequalities. β-convergence examination is one of the aforementioned methods of measuring income distribution. An important point is that, urbanization trend cannot be examined apart from economic variables either in Iran or in other countries of the world and economic variables such as households’ income are expected to be affected by the degree of urbanization. Consistent with this reasoning, we can say that urbanization is one of the effective factors on income distribution; therefore, the present paper is focused on the examination of urbanization effects upon convergence rate of income distribution between urban and rural areas in 25 selected provinces of Iran during the time period of 2001-2011 using general spatial econometric model and ordinary least squares (OSL) method. The findings indicated the existence of income distribution convergence among the examined provinces during the above-mentioned period. Moreover, during this period and following the increasing degree of urbanization, the conditional convergence rate for decreasing the gap between current income of urban and rural and its steady state equilibrium is increased as compared with the absolute convergence rate.
