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Trade policy and the Third World metropolis
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Many of the world's largest cities are now in developing countries. We develop a simple theoretical model, inspired by the case of Mexico, that explains the existence of such giant cities as a consequence of the strong forward and backward linkages that arise when manufacturing tries to serve a small domestic market. The model implies that these linkages are much weaker when the economy is open to international trade -- in other words, the giant Third World metropolis is an unintended by-product of import-substitution policies, and will tend to shrink as developing countries liberalize.
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- Authors
- Krugman, P., & Elizondo, R. L.
- Venue
- Journal of Development Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1996-04
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 137-150
- ISSN
- 0304-3878 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3124278245
- Cited by
- 734
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 22.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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