Ethiopia to examine the welfare impacts of internal migration. Using a number of techniques and various objective and … subjective measures, we measure the impacts of migration on the welfare of migrants versus non-migrants. We find large gains to … migration suggest that barriers exist, even within countries such as Ethiopia, against the free movement of people to places …

determinants of rural-urban migration at the individual, household and community levels, with a particular focus on rural services … are important determinants of migration. Taking the possible endogeneity of rural services into account, the evidence …-farm labor for migration by lowering transaction costs. …

migration and internal migration within the African continent and inequality, poverty, and social welfare in rural households … negative correlation between internal migration and inequality and a positive correlation between international migration and … inequality. International migration, which involves high costs and risks, appears to be mainly accessible to already wealthy …

Strong economic growth in urban areas has not led to rapid urbanization in Ethiopia, possibly as a result of prevailing … land tenure policies. We examine the economic implications of accelerated urbanization using a rural–urban economywide … model that explicitly captures internal migration and agglomeration effects. Simulation results indicate that accelerated …

In comparison to other African countries, Ethiopia has a low urbanization rate. According to the World Bank World … Development Report (WDR) 2009, Sub-Sahara Africa is 30% urbanized, whereas Ethiopia is only 10.9% urbanized. Urbanization rates … Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia reports a 16% urbanization rate. In an effort to standardize and measure Ethiopian …

"It has been argued in the literature that China is underurbanized in large part because of restrictions on migration …. While the presence of migration barriers can help explain why existing cities fail to achieve their optimal size, it cannot … explain the lack of cities. Although migration has become much easier over time, the number of cities in China has been rather …

"Rising per capita income, urbanization and globalization are changing the consumption basket in the developing …

, such as Asia and Africa. The pattern in developing Asia is characterized by fast growth and slow urbanization, primarily as … slow growth with rapid urbanization stemming from urban-biased policies, low rural population density, and high rates of … population growth. But whereas Africa's path of urbanization without growth presents problems like unemployment, congestion, and …