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Sir Paul Collier on Urbanisation and Economic Development

Geoff Riley

17th March 2015

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No country anywhere has developed without urbanisation. Professor Sir Paul Collier, the renowned development expert and Professor of Economics & Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford provides a six minute overview on the importance of urbanisation and the role played by a good city in harnessing scale economies and in creating extra rents.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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