show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial …

Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only …). Indeed, after WWII, thinking on development was focused on growth. A major shift occurred in the late 1990s, which has … consisted in the replacement of 'growth' or 'development' as a goal of policymakers and international institutions and a central …

assist in the development of human and social capital and economic opportunities, the alleviation of poverty or the …

to transport planners and policy-makers in Africa to bridge the French-English language divide. The aim of the paper is … Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal and South Africa, enables a meta-analysis of African travel survey findings amongst low …

rate of growth and the sectoral trade balance of these two countries. More precisely, our findings justify the interest of …

rate of growth and the sectoral trade balance of these two countries. More precisely, our findings justify the interest of …

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …

Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to …