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Does road accessibility to cities support rural population growth? Evidence for...
Melo, Patrícia; Rego, Conceição; Anciães, Paulo; Guiomar, Nuno; Muñoz-Rojas, JoséMotorways in Portugal received large scale funding after the country joined the European Union in 1986, making it an ideal case to study the effect of road accessibility on the development of lagging rural areas. We investigate the relationship between rural population change and road accessibility to the urban hierarchy between 1991 and 2011. We find that rural population growth is negatively associated with i...
Does road accessibility to cities support rural population growth? Evidence for...
Melo, Patricia; Rego, Conceição; Anciães, Paulo; Guiomar, Nuno; Muñoz-Rojas, JoséMotorways in Portugal received large scale funding after the country joined the European Union in 1986, making it an ideal case to study the effect of road accessibility on the development of lagging rural areas. We investigate the relationship between rural population change and road accessibility to the urban hierarchy between 1991 and 2011. We find that rural population growth is negatively associated with i...
01066 - SPATIAL DISPARITIES IN POPULATION GROWTH ACROSS RURAL AREAS IN PORTUGAL...
Melo, Patrícia; Rego, Conceição; Muñoz-Rojas, José; Anciães, PauloThis study provides evidence on spatio-temporal patterns of socio-economic performance across rural small areas (freguesias) in Portugal between 1991 and 2011, and investigates the factors underlying the differences in relative performance occurred during that period. The study creates a new unique socio-economic dataset using small- scale geographies (freguesias), while the majority of previous studies focusin...