Urban population, urban land area, and urban population density in Southeast Asia are all increasing at a fast rate and the levels of urban primacy are high in most countries. Urban growth in Southeast Asia contributes to economic development and more so at higher levels of urbanization. This ...
Given this definition, Manila in 2000 was ranked first in the following categories: most populous core; being the most populous mega-urban region; having the highest percentage share in the national population, and highest total fertility rate.Keywords: urbanization, mega-urban region, core, inner...
Transitional economies in Southeast Asia—a distinct group of developing countries—have experienced rapid urbanization in the past several decades due to the economic transition that fundamentally changed the function of their economies, societies and the environment. Myanmar, one of the least developed ...
based on pooled country data every 5 years from 1965–1995. InFigure 3the log of national urban population is an increasing concave function of the log of income per capita, indicating thegrowthrate of urban population is a concave increasing function of income levels[Davis and Henderson (2003...
For many observers, however, the greatest concern is surely the massive increase in the numbers of the urban poor. Available data suggest that in a large number of the world's poorest countries, the proportion of urban poor is increasing faster than the overall rate of urban population growth...
Vietnam's most populous urban center and main business center, Ho Chi Minh City, was sinking annually at an average of 0.2 millimeters, the highest rate revealed in the study's survey of satellite data from 48 large coastal cities around the world. Some cities in South and Southeast Asia ...
There are significant regional differences in urbanization in China (Chen, Ye, Lu, Sui, & Guo, 2019). The urbanization rate of mega-cities in eastern China has reached a level that is consistent with developed countries, while urbanization development in the central and western regions has been...
The population will increase by 2%–8%/10 a during 2020–2050 and reach 5.0–6.0 billion in 2050. Meanwhile, the urbanization rate will increase by 1.4%–7.5%/10 a and reach 49%–75%. The GDP will increase by 17%–34%/10 a and reach 134–243 trillion USD.(2) Large differences ...
with negative indirect impacts were mainly observed in Southeast Asia and Central America, with the highest negative effects found in Costa Rica, and North America, whereas the highest positive indirect impacts were observed in Ghana, and Western Africa. At the country scale (Fig.2b), more ...