​The paper considers the relationship between population and services. The approach taken is to consider the role of population before a service provider will enter a market, and then explain why this occurs and how this relates to competition. This paper applies a standard neo-classical micro-economic framework.

• Population and access to local services
  

  bitre_population_and_access_to_local_services_staff_paper.pdf [PDF: 1.19 MB]
  

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