The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …

higher in developing-world cities than in rural areas, and historically urbanization is strongly correlated with economic … growth. Education seems to be a strong complement to urbanization, and entrepreneurial human capital correlates strongly with …

urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …

We describe patterns of urbanization in the developing world and the extent to which they differ from the developed … world. We consider the extent to which urbanization in the developing world can be explained by conventional models of … structural transformation has suggested that urbanization in the developing is occurring `too early', while another strand argues …