Rapid urbanisation is a major feature of developing countries. Some 2 billion more people are likely to become city … residents in the next 30 years, yet urbanisation has received little attention in the modern development economics literature …. This paper reviews theoretical and empirical work on the determinants and effects of urbanisation. This suggests that there …

urbanisation took place mainly in the XIX Century, with higher costs of spatial interaction, weaker economics of scale, and less …

decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly … are more likely to choose decentralization. Using three datasets of French and British firms in the 1990s, we report …

The effects of decentralization on public sector outputs is much debated but little agreed upon. This paper compares … the remarkable case of Bolivia with the more complex case of Colombia to explore decentralization’s effects on public … education outcomes. In Colombia, decentralization of education finance improved enrollment rates in public schools. In Bolivia …