?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=10.1111%2Fj.1435-5597.1995.tb00641.x&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4464%2F&rft.title=Population+Concentration+in+Less+Developed+Countries%3A+New+Evidence&rft.creator=MacKellar%2C+F.L.&rft.creator=Vining+Jr.%2C+D.R.&rft.description=Economic+theory+associates+the+increase+in+population+concentration%2C+i.e.%2C+the+proportion+of+national+population+residing+in+the+core+economic+region%2C+with+scale+and+agglomeration+economies.+Wheaton+and+Shishido+(1981)+estimated+that+these+persist+until+real+per+capita+national+income+reaches+US%245%2C000+(1985+rates).+After+this+point+in+a+country's+economic+development%2C+population+redistribution+towards+the+core+region+will+cease+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%2C+albeit+with+exceptions.+Evidence+from+less+developed+countries+(LDCs)+through+the+1980+round+of+censuses+led+Vining+(1986)+to+propose+a+weakened+version+of+the+US%245%2C000+rule%2C+in+which+this+point+is+characterized+only+by+a+slowing+rate+of+population+re-distribution+towards+the+core%2C+not+by+an+outright+reversal.+This+paper+updates+previously+reported+trends+in+population+redistribution+in+LDCs+and+reports+on+many+new+countries.+Taken+as+a+whole%2C+post-war+data+reinforce+the+need+for+caution+of+the+sort+expressed+by+Vining.+While+there+is+a+weak+negative+correlation+between+the+rate+of+net+migration+into+the+core+region+and+per+capita+income%2C+the+share+of+the+population+residing+in+the+core+region+may+continue+to+rise+even+when+per+capita+income+has+grown+to+well+beyond+US%245%2C000.+%0D%0A%0D%0AMen%2C+thinly+scattered%2C+make+a+shift%2C+but+a+bad+shift%2C+without+many+things.+A+smith+is+ten+miles+off%3A+they+do+without+a+nail+or+staple.+A+taylor+is+far+from+them%3A+they'll+botch+their+clothes.+It+is+being+concentrated+which+produces+high+convenience+(Boswell+1786%2C+p.169).&rft.publisher=RR-96-001.+Reprinted+from+Papers+in+Regional+Science%3A+The+Journal+of+the+RSAI%3B+74(3)%3A259-293+(July+1995)&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.rights=cc_by&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4464%2F1%2FRR-96-01.pdf&rft.identifier=++MacKellar%2C+F.L.+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fview%2Fiiasa%2F2146.html%3E+%26+Vining+Jr.%2C+D.R.++(1995).++Population+Concentration+in+Less+Developed+Countries%3A+New+Evidence.+++IIASA+Research+Report+(Reprint).+IIASA%2C+Laxenburg%2C+Austria%3A+RR-96-001.+Reprinted+from+Papers+in+Regional+Science%3A+The+Journal+of+the+RSAI%3B+74(3)%3A259-293+(July+1995)+10.1111%2Fj.1435-5597.1995.tb00641.x+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1111%2Fj.1435-5597.1995.tb00641.x%3E.+++++&rft.relation=10.1111%2Fj.1435-5597.1995.tb00641.x&rft.identifier=10.1111%2Fj.1435-5597.1995.tb00641.x&rft.doi=10.1111%2Fj.1435-5597.1995.tb00641.x