eprintid: 4259 rev_number: 5 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/42/59 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:05:05 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:15:02 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:05:05 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: MacKellar, F.L. creators_name: Vining Jr., D.R. creators_id: AL0956 title: Population concentration in less developed countries: New evidence ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_pop internal_subjects: iis_urb internal_subjects: iis_reg internal_subjects: iis_ecn divisions: prog_pop abstract: Economic theory associates the increase in population concentration, i.e., the proportion of national population residing in the core economic region, with scale and agglomeration economies. Wheaton and Shishido (1981) estimated that these persist until real per capita national income reaches 5,000 1985 U.S. dollars (USD). After this point in a country's economic development, they predicted, population redistribution towards the core region will case and the proportion of national population residing in the core region will commence to decline. The experience of developed countries (DCS) in the 1970s and 1980s broadly conformed to this pattern, albeit with exceptions. Evidence from less developed countries (LDCs) through the 1980 round of censuses led Venning (1986) to propose a weakened version of the USD 5,000 rule in which this point is characterized only by a slowing of rate of population re-distribution towards the core, not by an out right by a slowing of rate of population re-distribution towards the core, not by an out right reversal. This paper updates previously reported trends in population redistribution in LDCs and reports on many new countries. Taken as a whole post-war data reinforce the need for caution of the sort expressed by Vining. While there is weak negative correlation between the rate of bet migration into the core region and per capita income, the share of population residing in the core region may continue to rise even when per capita income has grown to well beyond USD 5,000. date: 1995 date_type: published publisher: Wiley-Blackwell id_number: 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1995.tb00641.x iiasapubid: XJ-95-075 iiasa_bibref: Papers in Regional Science; 74(3):259-293 (July 1995) iiasa_bibnotes: [doi:10.1111/j.1435-5597.1995.tb00641.x]. Also available as IIASA Reprint RP-96-001 and IIASA Working Paper WP-94-122 <www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PUB/Documents/WP-94-122.pdf> creators_browse_id: 2146 full_text_status: none publication: Papers in Regional Science volume: 74 number: 3 pagerange: 259-293 refereed: TRUE issn: 1435-5957 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: MacKellar, F.L. & Vining Jr., D.R. (1995). Population concentration in less developed countries: New evidence. Papers in Regional Science 74 (3) 259-293. 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1995.tb00641.x .